Richard Stallman and Aaron Schwartz admitted to the Internet Hall of Fame

Founder of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) Richard Stallman today joins the ranks of honorary citizens admitted to the Internet Hall of Fame . This is an annually updated list of outstanding personalities who have contributed to the creation and development of the World Wide Web.

Richard Stallman was honored with the honor of being the founder of the GNU Project, the main author of the GNU General Public License (GPL), and for his contribution to the philosophy of free software.

Stallman was admitted to the Hall of Fame as an “innovator”, this category applies to people who have achieved outstanding technical, commercial or political achievements in the dissemination of the Internet.

Richard Stallman took the recognition of his merits as an opportunity to appeal to everyone: “Now that we have a working Network, we have a new task: to stop its use as a mass surveillance tool and make it work in such a way that human rights are respected, including the right privacy, ” Stallman said .

The Free Software Foundation congratulates Richard Stallman and all other Hall of Fame nominees and thanks them for their contributions to the Internet.

In addition to Richard Stallman, in 2013 the Hall of Fame was replenished:

Innovators

• Aaron Schwartz (posthumous) - co-author of RSS technology, co-owner of Reddit, one of the first developers of Creative Commons;
• Mark Andrissen - co-author of the popular browser Mosaic and co-founder of Netscape;
• John Perry Barlow - co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF);
• Jimmy Wales is the founder of Wikipedia.

Pioneers

• Robert Metcalf - led the invention, standardization, and commercialization of Ethernet;
• David Clark - made a significant contribution to the creation of early Internet protocols and architecture;
• Howard Frank is a co-author of a proposal that won a contract to develop the ARPAnet network architecture.

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