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Richard Matthew Stallman (born 16 March 1953), often known as rms or RMS, is the founder of the Free Software movement, the GNU project, the Free Software Foundation, and the League for Programming Freedom. He also invented the concept of copyleft to protect the ideals of this movement, and enshrined this concept in the widely-used GPL (General Public License) for software.

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Pen Names: rms • Saint IGNUcius

Birth Name: Richard Matthew Stallman

Alternative Names: Richard M. Stallman • R. Stallman • St. IGNUcius • Chief GNUisance • RMS

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If in my lifetime the problem of non-free software is solved, I could perhaps relax and write software again. But I might instead try to help deal with the world's larger problems. Standing up to an evil system is exhilarating, and now I have a taste for it.

Snow is so beautiful, it doesn't have to be useful.

Odious ideas are not entitled to hide from criticism behind the human shield of their believers' feelings.

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