Richard+Stallman

=Richard Stallman=

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-Richard Matthew Stallman is a software developer, "hacker" and a software freedom activist. In 1983 he announced to develop a new project, the GNU operating system, a Unix-like operating system meant to be entirely free software, and has been the project's leader ever since. Stallman also launched the Free Software Movement and in 1985 he started the [|Free Software Foundation]. [|Richard Stallman] He also made the GNU General Public Licence, the licence most widely used by open source software programmers, and the model on which [|Creative Commons] licences are based. Richard was basically gifted in mathematics and physics which were two most very challenging subjects. Stallman has always been interested in computers and the different things it had in it and he was so interested he started writing computer programs down on a piece of paper. Richard grew up a good kid with basic knowledge in schooling and was bright enough to start attending Harvard well he began to earn his degree in physics. Richard found a job that he could work at while attending Harvard, he started out as a "Hacker". Working at this job is where he got all his ideas for free software. Stallman got all into the problems and defects of his job so which he became so much interested in free software. This is when he decided to start the GNU project with the idea of creating a new operating system. Then a new type of copyright license developed and came to life called "[|copyleft]". [|Copyleft] is basically a new way and is the total oppisite of copyright.Stallman was a hard working person who just developed so many different ideas in the computer programming world. He aimed to help out the computering world for only the best.