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In 1984, Richard Stallman founded the FSF (Free Software Foundation) and related GNU project (GNU's Not Unix). Stallman is the person who formalized then prevailing practices of the Unix/Internet operations and programming community into a licensing system called 'Free Software'. Later, other people renamed this to 'Open Source'.

Resources in This Category

• FAIFzilla

  http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Free_as_in_Freedom
  The "no-frills" online version of "Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software".

• Free Software Foundation: Richard Stallman's blog

  http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/
  List resources about events, recent topics and discussions by date.

• GNU Operating System — GNU Audio and Video

  http://audio-video.gnu.org/
  Watch video or listen to audio recordings of speeches and other events related to the Free Software Foundation or the GNU project.

• Linux Today: Richard Stallman, 15 Years of Free Software

  http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=1999-03-17-003-10-NW-LF
  By Stallman: brief article taking stock of 15 years of progress; with feedback responses.

• Prince Kropotkin of Software

  http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Stallman/index.shtml
  Portrait of the man and his anarchistic GNU project.

• Richard Stallman's Personal Site

  http://www.stallman.org/
  Founder of GNU Project and Free Software Foundation, father and current maintainer of the One True Emacs. Read the Master in a background of quietly understated elegance. Personal essays, political opinions, travel experiences, brief biography.

• Salon 21st: The Richard Stallman Saga, Redux

  http://www.salon.com/1998/09/11/feature_282/
  By Andrew Leonard. 'The saint of free software' sparks new debates about the philosophy of the open source movement: lively exchange between Stallman and Eric Raymond, and Tim O'Reilly response.

• Salon 21st: The Saint of Free Software

  http://www.salon.com/1998/07/30/feature_285/
  By Andrew Leonard. Maverick Richard Stallman keeps the faith; and gives Bill Gates the finger. Entertaining true life reporter's experience of time spent with Stallman.

• Wikipedia: Richard Stallman

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman
  Encyclopaedia entry, includes brief history, the GNU project, activism and personal life.

• ZDNet: Interview: GNU guru Richard Stallman

  http://www.zdnet.com/news/interview-gnu-guru-richard-stallman/106091
  Mainly about the Uniform Computer Information Transaction Act: UCITA.

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