Richard Stallman
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Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), also known by his initials, rms, and occasionally upper-case RMS, is an American free software movement activist and programmer.
He calls for software to be released in a way that ensures that the consumer has the ability to use, study, publish, and modify the app.
Free software is a form of software that guarantees these freedoms.
Stallman, a Free Software Foundation founder, created the GNU Compiler Collection and GNU Emacs, and wrote the GNU General Public License. In September 1983, Stallman began the GNU Project to build a Unix-like computer operating system entirely made up of free software.
He also started the free software movement as a result of this.
He has served as the lead architect and organizer of a number of GNU applications, including the GNU Compiler Collection, GNU Debugger, and the GNU Emacs text editor.
He founded the Free Software Foundation in 1985 (FSF).
In September 2019, he resigned as president of the FSF and took his "visiting scientist" role at MIT, and is the most popular free software license.
Stallman has been campaigning for free software since the mid-1990s, as well as promoting software patents, digital rights administration (which he referred to as misappropriating the more common term), and other regulatory and technical procedures that threaten users' rights.
This has included software licence agreements, non-disclosure agreements, activation keys, dongles, copy control, proprietary formats, and binary executables without source code.
Early life
Stallman was born in New York City on March 16, 1953, to a Jewish family of Jewish origins. He had a turbulent relationship with his parents and didn't think he had a proper home. He was keen on computers at a young age; when Stallman was a pre-teen at a summer camp, he read IBM 7094 instruction manuals. Stallman attended a Columbia University Saturday program for high school students from 1967 to 1969. At Rockefeller University, Stallman served as a volunteer laboratory assistant in the biology department. Despite being keen on mathematics and physics, Rockefeller's supervising professor said he displayed promise as a biologist.
When he first started using real computers at the IBM New York Scientific Center, he had his first exposure to them. He was hired in 1970 to work on a numerical analysis unit in Fortran, following his senior year of high school. He completed the project in a few weeks ("I promised that I would never use FORTRAN again because I despised it as a word unlike other languages") and spent the remainder of the summer writing a text editor and a preprocessor for IBM's PL/I programming language.
Stallman, a first-year undergraduate at Harvard University in fall 1970, was known for his strong math skills. He was joking: "I felt I had found a home at Harvard for the first time in my life."
He became a programmer at MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 1971 and became a regular in the hacker community, where he was typically identified by his initials, RMS, which he used in his computer accounts. In 1974, Stallman earned a bachelor's degree in physics (magna cum laude).
Stallman considered staying at Harvard but decided against enrolling as a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He worked in physics for one year but decided to focus on his programming at MIT's AI Laboratory.
Stallman, who began working at MIT under Gerry Sussman, published a paper in 1977 describing an AI truth maintenance scheme that was dependent-driven backtracking. This paper was the first research on the subject of intelligent backtracking in constraint satisfaction issues. The technique used by Stallman and Sussman in 2009 is still the most common and effective way of backtracking. In this paper, the method of constraint recording, wherein partial results of a search are recorded for later reuse, was also introduced.
Stallman, a programmer in MIT's AI laboratory, worked on TECO and Emacs for the Incompatible Timesharing System (ITS), as well as the Lisp machine operating system (the CONS of 1974–1979 and the CADR of 1977–1979), a former unit of Symbolics and Lisp Machines, Inc. (LMI) from 1980 to 1980. He'll be a vocal critic of restricted computer access in the lab, which was primarily funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency at the time (DARPA). Stallman, a MIT computer science (LCS) researcher, discovered a way to decrypt the passwords and sent users emails containing their decoded password, but there was also a suggestion to change it to the empty string (no password) in order to re-enable anonymous access to the networks. Around 20% of the respondents followed his instructions at the time, but passwords eventually prevailed. For many years afterward, the stamina of his campaign was lauded.
Personal life
Stallman lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He speaks in English, French, Spanish, and occasional Indonesian. He has claimed that he is "an atheist of Jewish ancestry" and often wears a button that reads "Impeach God."
Stallman has released a set of filk music and parody songs.
He is childless and antinatalist.
He denies ever having Asperger's, but has often wondered if he'd have a "shadow" version of it.
Honors and awards
- 1986: Honorary lifetime membership of the Chalmers University of Technology Computer Society
- 1990: Exceptional merit award MacArthur Fellowship ("genius grant")
- 1990: The Association for Computing Machinery's Grace Murray Hopper Award "For pioneering work in the development of the extensible editor EMACS (Editing Macros)"
- 1996: Honorary doctorate from Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology
- 1998: Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award
- 1999: Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Award
- 2001: The Takeda Techno-Entrepreneurship Award for Social/Economic Well-Being (武田研究奨励賞)
- 2001: Honorary doctorate, from the University of Glasgow
- 2002: US National Academy of Engineering membership "for starting the GNU project, which produced influential, non-proprietary software tools, and for founding the free software movement"
- 2003: Honorary doctorate, from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- 2004: Honorary doctorate, from the Universidad Nacional de Salta
- 2004: Honorary professorship, from the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería del Perú
- 2007: Honorary professorship, from the Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega
- 2007: First Premio Internacional Extremadura al Conocimiento Libre
- 2007: Honorary doctorate, from the Universidad de Los Angeles de Chimbote
- 2007: Honorary doctorate, from the University of Pavia
- 2008: Honorary doctorate from the Universidad Nacional de Trujillo, in Peru
- 2009: Honorary doctorate, from Lakehead University
- 2011: Honorary doctorate, from National University of Córdoba
- 2012: Honorary professorship, from the Universidad César Vallejo de Trujillo, in Peru
- 2012: Honorary doctorate, from the Universidad Latinoamericana Cima de Tacna, in Peru
- 2012: Honorary doctorate, from the Universidad José Faustino Sánchez Carrión, in Peru
- 2014: Honorary doctorate, from Concordia University, in Montréal
- 2015: ACM Software System Award "For the development and leadership of GCC"
- 2016: Honorary doctorate, from Pierre and Marie Curie University
- 2016: Social Medicine award, from GNU Solidario