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Stallman, Richard - technical definition
In 1982, he founded the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and
dedicated himself to producing high-quality, free software. He began the
programming and implementation of a full clone of UNIX, written in C
and available to the hacker community
for free. He succeeded—with the help of a large and active programmer Âcommunity—to
develop most of the software environment of a typical UNIX system, but he had
to wait for the Linux movement to
gain momentum before a UNIX-like operating system kernel became as freely
available as he (and like-minded others) had continuously demanded. In 2002, a
book written by Sam Williams entitled Free
as in Freedom: Richard StallmanÂ’s Crusade for Free Software, chronicles
StallmanÂ’s life, discusses his motivations for wanting free software, and gives
insights into his highly creative hacker personality. StallmanÂ’s personal home
page can be found at http://www.stallman.org/.
Rothke, B. StallmanÂ’s Crusade For Free Software. [Online, May 22, 2005.] CMP
Media LLC Website. http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=2425/
uni1017174098539/; Schell, B.H., Dodge, J.L., with S.S. Moutsatsos. The Hacking of America: WhoÂ’s Doing It, Why,
and How. Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 2002.