Richard Stallman. Great philosopher

Richard Stallman was born on 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 the preprocessor for the language PL / I

In 1971, Stallman entered Harvard and got a job in parallel at the laboratory of artificial intelligence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ). At MIT, he was part of the hacker team, which was refining, adding new functionality to the operating system developed there. As he himself tells in the Revolution OS documentary, the problems began when, after succumbing to the influence of the outside world, they had to enter passwords on computers.
Stallman believed that security is a joke, and passwords are a way to control users by administrators. He found a way to decode passwords and sent out to all users a letter with a proposal to abandon the password and at the entrance just press Enter. 1/5 agreed.



Gradually, with the development of proprietary software, Stallman became increasingly convinced that commercial software was antisocial and that quote was: “Non-free software is a predatory social system that dominates people, divides them and uses the profit to achieve even greater domination.”
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In January 1984, Richard Stallman left MIT to devote himself entirely to the GNU project, which he founded in September 1983.
The name itself is a joke, 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.
Later the Free Software Foundation ( FSF ) was established.
GNU's legal justification was secured by the GNU General Public License ( GNU GPL )

at the faculty of the Moscow State University

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

He is not married to the question about children; he answers that his only child is the free software movement.