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Name:	Richard Matthew Stallman
Birth Date:	1953
Nationality:	American
Gender:	Male
Occupations:	computer scientist

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Biography of Richard Matthew Stallman
987 words, approx. 3 pages

His stringy brown hair and mesmerizing green eyes once inspired the computer trade publication LinuxWorld to describe him as "Rasputin-like." At times during his controversial career, Richard Stallman lived in his ninth-floor office at the...

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Richard Matthew Stallman ( RMS ; born 16 March , 1953 ) is the founder of the Free Software movement , the GNU project, the Free Software Foundation , and the League for Programming Freedom . He also invented the concept of copyleft to protect the...

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Richard Stallman Information
5,174 words, approx. 17 pages

Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often abbreviated "rms",[1] is an American software freedom activist, hacker,[2] and software developer. In September 1983, he launched the GNU Project[3] to create a free Unix-like operating system, and...

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Unleashing the Freedom To Share: An Interview with Free Software Innovator Richard Stallman
05/01/2006: 2,054 words, approx. 7 pages

In the last 25 years free software (more commonly, though problematically, known as "open source" software) has developed into possibly the most successful cooperative production venture in industrial history. Making the source code (the text of the instructions that program a computer) for free...

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Richard Stallman: freedom-his passion both for work and in life.(2003 Featured Inductee)(Biography)
10/20/2003: 692 words, approx. 2 pages

FOR RICHARD STALLMAN, THERE'S NO separation between his work and his beliefs. They are one and his creation of the GNU Project is the optimum example of that. The GNU system (an acronym for GNU is not Unix) gives computer users a...

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Richard Stallman

About 44 pages (13,059 words) in 3 products