Richard Stallman and The History of Free Software and Open Source

Richard Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation: a socio-technological movement that revolutionized the software world.

FSF History

On September 27, 1983, Richard M. Stallman (RMS) posted the initial announcement of GNU, his project to develop a fully free (as in freedom) operating system.

A Brief History Of Open Source. Richard Stallman, the Free Software…

Collaboration was king in the software world when Richard Stallman joined MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab in 1971 as a freshman at Harvard ...

History of free and open-source software - Wikipedia

The history of free and open-source software begins at the advent of computer software in the early half of the 20th century. In the 1950s and 1960s, ...

Richard Stallman and the History of Free Software and Open Source ...

Richard Stallman's reaction at the time made it very clear he felt that Open Source was trying to hijack his mission to provide user freedom and ...

Richard Stallman | Biography, Free Software Foundation, & Facts

In 1999 Stallman published “The Free Universal Encyclopedia and Learning Resource,” a paper calling for the creation of an open-source ...

A Brief History Of Open Source | Gitcoin Blog

Richard Stallman, the Free Software Movement, and the beginnings of Open Source Collaboration was king in the software world when Richard Stallman joined MIT's ...

Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software - GNU.org

The free software movement campaigns for freedom for the users of computing; it is a movement for freedom and justice. By contrast, the open source idea values ...

GNU Project - Stanford Computer Science

In 1971, when Stallman first started his career at MIT, he worked in a group that used open source software (for a definition of "free software" go here). The ...

Richard Stallman - Wikipedia

Richard Matthew Stallman also known by his initials, rms, is an American free software movement activist and programmer. He campaigns for software to be ...

A look back at 40 Years of GNU and the Free Software Foundation

In the early 1980s, an MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory programmer named Richard M. Stallman (RMS) was having trouble with a notoriously ...

GNU Project - Free Software Foundation

When I started working at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab in 1971, I became part of a software-sharing community that had existed for many years. Sharing of ...

What is free software and why is it so important for society?

The free software movement was started in 1983 by computer scientist Richard M. Stallman, when he launched a project called GNU, which stands for “GNU is Not ...

Richard Matthew Stallman – The Father Of Free Software Foundation

In 1983 Matthew Stallman started GNU project. He was sure that he is the chosen one to give users freedom by creating Free Software.

Free Software Movement: Ethics and Advocacies with Richard ...

First I should explain what open-source means and why it exists. I started the Free Software Movement in 1983. By 1998, we had the GNU/Linux operating system ...

For Fun and Profit: A History of the Free and Open Source Software ...

Tozzi explains FOSS's historical trajectory, shaped by eccentric personalities—including Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds—and driven both by ideology and ...

A Good Video on the History of the Open Source Movement

Richard Stallman was motivated to create the Free Software Foundation and started building GNU not because of Microsoft, but because of the actions of ...

Richard Stallman, “What is Free Software?” - EdTech Books

The open source movement and many of its philosophies can be traced back to, and grew out of, Richard Stallman's ideas about free software. The concepts ...

History of Open Source & Free Software, w/ Richard Stallman & Tim ...

Richard Stallman, the founder of the FSF, and Tim O'Reilly who helped popularize the term 'Open Source' discuss the history of Open Source ...

Open Source History

1983- Free Software Movement(link to wikipedia)- lead by Richard Stallman. Goal: "to liberate everyone in cyberspace." 1993- Open Source operating systems: GNU/ ...