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FREE SOFTWARE MOVEMENT: A PERSPECTIVE

Speaker

RICHARD STALLMAN Chairperson, Free Software Foundation

13th February 2003 (Thursday) 9.30 P.M. Ganga Hostel Mess

Richard Stallman is the founder of the gnu project, launched in 1984 to develop the free operating system GNU or more popularly known as Linux. Principal author of the GNU compiler collection designed to support diverse architectures and multiple languages, which now supports over 30 different architectures and 7 programming languages. Stallman also wrote the GNU Symbolic Debugger (GDB), GNU emacs, and various other GNU programs.

Stallman graduated in physics from Harvard in 1974. During his college years, he also worked as a staff hacker at the MIT artificial intelligence lab, learning operating system development by doing it. He wrote the first extensive emacs text editor there in 1975. In January 1984 he resigned from MIT to start the GNU project.

Stallman received the Grace Hopper award for 1991 from the association for computing machinery, for his development of the first emacs editor. In 1996 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. In 1998 he received the electronic frontier foundation's pioneer award along with Linus Torvalds. In 1999 he received the Yuri Rubinski award.