Richard Stallman Great philosopher

Richard Stallman was born March 16, 1953 in New York. Immediately after graduating from high school, at the age of 18, he got a job at the IBM Science Center, where he worked all summer on a preprocessor for the PL / I language .

In 1971, Stallman entered Harvard and simultaneously got a job at the Massachusetts Institute of Artificial Intelligence Institute ( MIT ). At MIT, he was part of a hacker team that was modifying, adding new functionality to the operating system developed there. As he himself says in the Revolution OS documentary, the problems began when, succumbing to the influence of the outside world, it was necessary to enter passwords on computers.
Stallman believed that security is a joke, and passwords are a way for administrators to control users. He found a way to decode passwords and sent a message to all users asking him to refuse the password and just press Enter when he entered. 1/5 agreed.



Gradually, with the development of proprietary software, Stallman became increasingly convinced that commercial software is antisocial and that, quote: “Non-free software is a predatory social system that dominates people, divides them and uses the profit to achieve even greater dominance”


In January 1984, Richard Stallman left MIT to fully devote himself to the GNU project, which he founded in September 1983.
The name itself is a joke, a hack, the fact is that GNU is a recursive acronym from GNU's Not Unix.
Initially, the project was focused on writing an open source Unix-like operating system. The first GNU program was Emacs, written by Stallman himself.
The Free Software Foundation ( FSF ) was later established. The
GNU legal foundation was enshrined in the GNU General Public License ( GNU GPL ).

at the faculty of VMiK MSU

Currently, Richard Stallman officially lives in Cambridge, but he does not have his own home. He travels around the world with lectures, attends all kinds of conferences, forums, award ceremonies and leads a lifestyle of a wandering evangelist and philosopher. Interestingly, most often Stallman is not paid for it.

He is not married, when asked about children, he answers that his only child is the free software movement.