Word: stallman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...highly volatile, high-stakes computer software industry, it's tough to stick around. That's what makes a man named Richard Stallman remarkable...
...years ago, he left MIT to go into the business of computer software. Today, his organization is still flourishing. Stallman is in the business of giving his software away for free...
Immediately after leaving MIT, Stallman started his organization--the Free Software Foundation (FSF)--by publishing his GNU Manifesto, a statement of purpose and of philosophy. The organization distributes all of its software for free with source code...
...author of good free software can make money by training users, and by adding features for specific users. Stallman made so much money in this fashion that he arbitrarily capped his income at that of the average American family. Thanks to a "genius grant" from the MacArthur Foundation, he no longer accepts any money at all for his programming...
Vice President Al Gore '69 is a strong proponent of information highways. No one but Richard Stallman seems to worry about the vehicles that will travel them. It would be impossible for me to build my own car from scratch, but I can certainly pick out options in the showroom. In the same way, GNU and EMACS can be customized and extended to my individual needs in a way that Windows or System 7 can never...