RICHARD STALLMAN

Richard Matthew Stallman

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Richard Matthew Stallman
Richard Stallman in Oslo, Norway 2009
Lahir	16 Maret 1953 (umur 59) New York City, New York
Nama panggilan	rms
Pekerjaan	Presiden Yayasan Perangkat Lunak Bebas
Gerakan politik	Gerakan Perangkat Lunak Bebas

Situs web
www.stallman.org

Richard Matthew Stallman (lahir 16 Maret 1953; umur 59 tahun) adalah pendiri gerakan perangkat lunak bebas, proyek GNU, dan Yayasan Perangkat Lunak Bebas. Beliau adalah yang mengerjakan, GNU C Compiler, dan GNU Debugger. Stallman juga yang menulis GNU General Public License (GNU GPL atau GPL), lisensi perangkat lunak bebas yang terbanyak dipakai, dan memberi ilham konsep copyleft.

A Serious Bio

Richard Matthew Stallman is a software developer and software freedom activist. Born in 1953, he attended Harvard starting in 1970 and graduated in 1974 with a Bachelor of Arts in physics. From September 1974 to June 1975 he was a graduate student in physics at MIT.
He worked at the Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT from 1971 to 1984, learning operating system development by doing it, except for the year he was a graduate student. He wrote the first extensible Emacs text editor there in 1976, and developed the AI technique of dependency-directed backtracking, also known as truth maintenance.
In 1983 Stallman announced the project to develop the GNU operating system, a Unix-like operating system meant to be entirely free software, and has been the project's leader ever since. With that announcement he also launched the Free Software Movement.
Stallman began working on this project on January 5, 1984, resigning from MIT employment in order to do so. In October 1985 he started the Free Software Foundation, of which he is president as a full-time volunteer.
The GNU/Linux system, which is a variant of GNU that also uses the kernel Linux developed by Linus Torvalds, are used in tens or hundreds of millions of computers, and are now preinstalled in computers available in retail stores. However, the distributors of these systems often disregard the ideas of freedom which make free software important, and even include nonfree software in those systems.
That is why, since the mid-1990s, Stallman has spent most of his time in political advocacy for free software, and spreading the ethical ideas of the movement, as well as campaigning against both software patents and dangerous extension of copyright laws. Before that, Stallman developed a number of widely used software components of the GNU system, the GNU Compiler Collection, the GNU symbolic debugger (gdb), GNU Emacs, and various other programs for the GNU operating system.
Stallman pioneered the concept of copyleft, and is the main author of the GNU General Public License, the most widely used free software license, which implements copyleft.
Stallman gives speeches frequently about free software and related topics. Common speech titles include "The GNU Operating System and the Free Software movement", "The Dangers of Software Patents", and "Copyright and Community in the Age of the Computer Networks". A fourth common topic consists of explaining the changes in version 3 of the GNU General Public License, which was released in June 2007. Another topic is "A Free Digital Society", which treats several different threats to the freedom of computer users today.
In 1999, Stallman called for development of a free on-line encyclopedia through the means of inviting the public to contribute articles.
Stallman's writings on free software issues can be found in Free Software, Free Society (GNU Press). He has received the following awards:

• 1986: Honorary life time membership in the Chalmers Computer Society
• 1990: Receives a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship
• 1990: The Association for Computing Machinery's Grace Murray Hopper Award "For pioneering work in the development of the extensible editor EMACS (Editing Macros)."
• 1996: Honorary doctorate from Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology
• 1998: Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer award
• 1999: Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Award
• 2001: The Takeda Techno-Entrepreneurship Award for Social/Economic Well-Being
• 2001: Honorary doctorate from the University of Glasgow
• 2002: United States National Academy of Engineering membership
• 2003: Honorary doctorate from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
• 2003: Honorary professorship from the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería del Perú
• 2004: Honorary doctorate from the Universidad Nacional de Salta, in Argentina
• 2004: Honorary professorship from the Universidad Tecnológica del Perú
• 2005: Fundazione Pistoletto prize
• 2007: Honorary professorship from the Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, in Peru
• 2007: First Premio Iternacional Extremadura al Conocimiento Libre
• 2007: Honorary doctorate from the Universidad de Los Angeles de Chimbote, in Peru
• 2007: Honorary doctorate from the University of Pavia
• 2008: Honorary doctorate from the Universidad Nacional de Trujillo, in Peru
• 2009: Honorary doctor of science degree from Lakehead University in Canada
• 2011: Honorary doctorate from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, in Argentina
• 2012: Honorary professorship from the Universidad César Vallejo de Trujillo, in Peru
• 2012: Honorary doctorate from the Universidad Latinoamericana Cima de Tacna, in Peru
• 2012: Honorary doctorate from the Universidad José Faustino Sanchez Carrió, in Peru.

Richard Stallman's 1983 biography

(this biography was published in the first edition of "The Hacker's Dictionary".)
I was built at a laboratory in Manhattan around 1953, and moved to the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab in 1971. My hobbies include affection, international folk dance, flying, cooking, physics, recorder, puns, science fiction fandom, and programming; I magically get paid for doing the last one. About a year ago i split up with the PDP-10 computer to which I was married for ten years. We still love each other, but the world is taking us in different directions. For the moment I still live in Cambridge, Massachusetts, among our old memories. "Richard Stallman" is just my mundane name; you can call me "rms".