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

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

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

Stallman is accepted into 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 made the Work Network, we have a new task: to stop its use as a tool for mass surveillance and to make it work in such a way that human rights, including the right privacy, ” said Stallman.
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The Free Software Foundation congratulates Richard Stallman and all other Hall of Fame nominees and thanks them for their contribution to the development of the Internet.

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

Innovators

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

Pioneers

• Robert Metcalfe - 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 network architecture ARPAnet.

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