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2 days ago · Richard Matthew Stallman (/ ˈ s t ɔː l m ən / STAWL-mən; born March 16, 1953), also known by his initials, rms, is an American free software movement activist and programmer. He campaigns for software to be distributed in such a manner that its users have the freedom to use, study, distribute, and modify that software.
1 day ago · The Free Software Foundation (FSF) and the GNU (“GNU Not Unix”) project to a large extent reintroduced the idea that software should be free and treated as community property. FSF was formed by Richard Stallman who was a student of Jay Sussman at MIT. Both continue to provide leadership for FSF to this day.
2 days ago · It has been almost 40 years since Richard Stallman wrote his manifesto defining open-source software. Since then, the computer security world has embraced his vision — at least for some software — and come to rely heavily upon it.
5 days ago · DonHopkins 1 day ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Richard Stallman, su, and the 'wheel' group (2004) There is a missed opportunity to troll him by shacking him up with an unfriendly parrot, trained to say "Open Source Software".
2 days ago · The NVIDIA 555.58 video driver with explicit sync support is officially released, promising a new era in the Wayland experience for Linux users. The wait is finally over! NVIDIA has rolled out its latest display driver update, version 555.58, introducing a range of fixes and enhancements that promise to elevate the Linux computing experience.
5 days ago · Richard Stallman. James Newton Says: There are other people with ethics and others who were willing to sacrifice things for the ideal of sharing, but no one else seems to have understood or defended the pure joy of hacking code with other people they way he has.
1 day ago · The Free Software Foundation (FSF) prefers GNU/Linux as the name when referring to the operating system as a whole, because it considers Linux distributions to be variants of the GNU operating system initiated in 1983 by Richard Stallman, president of the FSF.
