Richard Stallman

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1953 age 0

   Born

2. 2001 age 48

   CreditRevolution OS

   CreditThe Code

• LTLinus Torvalds2 titles
• EREric S. Raymond2 titles
• SESusan Egan1 title
• JMJ.T.S. Moore1 title
• BPBruce Perens1 title
• MTMichael Tiemann1 title
• LALarry Augustin1 title
• BBBrian Behlendorf1 title
• HPHannu Puttonen1 title
• ACAlan Cox1 title

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• I didn't receive the DEC message, but I can't imagine I would have been bothered if I have. I get tons of uninteresting mail, and system announcements about babies born, etc. At least a demo MIGHT have been interesting. ... The amount of harm done by any of the cited "unfair" things the net has been used for is clearly very small. And if they have found any people any jobs, clearly they have done good. If I had a job to offer, I would offer it to my friends first. Is this "evil"? ... Would a dating service for people on the net be "frowned upon" by DCA? I hope not. But even if it is, don't let that stop you from notifying me via net mail if you start one.

  Richard Stallman, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Well, Geoff forwarded me a copy of the DEC message, and I eat my words. I sure would have minded it! Nobody should be allowed to send a message with a header that long, no matter what it is about.

  Richard Stallman, CC BY-SA 4.0

• What they had in common was mainly love of excellence and programming. They wanted to make their programs that they used be as good as they could. They also wanted to make them do neat things. They wanted to be able to do something in a more exciting way than anyone believed possible and show "Look how wonderful this is. I bet you didn't believe this could be done."

  Richard Stallman, CC BY-SA 4.0

• GNU, which stands for Gnu's Not Unix, is the name for the complete Unix-compatible software system which I am writing so that I can give it away free to everyone who can use it.

  Richard Stallman, CC BY-SA 4.0

• To avoid horrible confusion, please pronounce the G in the word GNU when it is the name of this project.

  Richard Stallman, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I consider that the golden rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it. Software sellers want to divide the users and conquer them, making each user agree not to share with others. I refuse to break solidarity with other users in this way. I cannot in good conscience sign a nondisclosure agreement or a software license agreement. For years I worked within the Artificial Intelligence Lab to resist such tendencies and other inhospitalities, but eventually they had gone too far: I could not remain in an institution where such things are done for me against my will. <br /> So that I can continue to use computers without dishonor, I have decided to put together a sufficient body of free software so that I will be able to get along without any software that is not free. I have resigned from the AI lab to deny MIT any legal excuse to prevent me from giving GNU away.

  Richard Stallman, CC BY-SA 4.0