Geburtsdatum | Montag, 16. März 1953 |
Geburtsort | New York City, New York, US |
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Beschreibung | Richard Matthew Stallman (/ˈstɔːlmən/; 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. Software that ensures these freedoms is termed free software. Stallman launched the GNU Project, founded the Free Software Foundation (FSF) in October 1985, developed the GNU Compiler Collection and GNU Emacs, and wrote the GNU General Public License. |
Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.
With paper printed books, you have certain freedoms. You can acquire the book anonymously by paying cash, which is the way I always buy books. I never use a credit card. I don't identify to any database when I buy books. Amazon takes away that freedom.
Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.
If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase.
In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.
When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our computers and have freedom, thus if you use some other free system instead but you have freedom, then it's a success. It's not popularity for our code but it's success for our goal.
