He is of the view that softwares are not to be patented and it should be available to all people for free. He advocated the same principle through out. Emacs (the GNU Compiler Collection) and the GNU Debugger are the softwares he himself developed.

 

The resource section on Free Software will be totally incomplete if we ‘abscond’ the name of Richard Matthew Stallman (often abbreviated as RMS).

Stallman was born in 1953 in New York City, New York, USA. Stallman is a legendary software freedom campaigner, hacker, and software developer. The gigantic GNU project is his cerebral harvest. He intended to fashion a Unix-like operating system. Hence 1983 saw the launch of the great project GNU. He started this to craft a free Unix-like operating system and he himself was the key personality behind.

The anecdote of this legend starts back to 1971. While he was a first year student at Harvard University, RMS joined as a programmer at the AI Laboratory of MIT. He through the name RMS became almost proverbial in the hacker society.

In 1985 he started the Free Software Foundation to build a podium for free softwares. Stallman was one amongst the founders of the League for Programming Freedom. It was from this same intellectual colossal that the concept of copy left came – under which many licenses for free software together with the GNU General Public License (the most extensively used free software license) came to lime light.

He is of the outlook that softwares are not to be patented and it should be accessible to all people for free. He advocated the same law through out. Stallman showed his skill in developing softwares. Emacs (the GNU Compiler Collection) and the GNU Debugger are the softwares he himself developed.

He made MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) to go for a drastic change when he showed that the encrypted passwords can be decrypted and by sending them to the users. Thus it was attested that by using the password they are just encumber one’s way to entrée the data and is not cent percent secure.

It was in his first edition of Hacker's Dictionary that he called himself “RMS”. He has developed lot of softwares in his career. And our great star is still on his line of attack to archive his goals. If he could win, it will be a triumph for the entire humankind.

 

 

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