While corporations dominate society and write the laws, each advance in technology is an opening for them to further restrict its users. - Richard Stallman

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While corporations dominate society and write the laws, each advance in technology is an opening for them to further restrict its users.

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About Richard Stallman

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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Birth Name: Richard Matthew Stallman
Alternative Names: Richard M. Stallman • R. Stallman • rms • St. IGNUcius • Chief GNUisance • RMS
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