Richard Stallman
American programmer and free software activist who founded the GNU Project and Free Software Foundation. Stallman's GNU General Public License established copyleft principles. His advocacy for software freedom and ethical computing challenged proprietary software models. Stallman's ideological commitment and lifestyle choices make him controversial yet influential in open-source philosophy.
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