The day - March 16th, 2013, marks the 60th birthday for the man, Richard Matthew Stallman, also known as "rms" or "St. iGNUcius".
There was a time when all software was free and open to all. But then, some proprietary software vendors introduced some licences which took away the user's freedom to share or modify or even have a look at the source code of the program they are using! This led to denial of the user to share the program with his friends or make changes to the source code of the program he is using. Stallman opposed this. Stallman believed that the attempts by such proprietary software vendors are unethical and anti-social.
Stallman founded the GNU Project in the year 1983. In the year 1984, Stallman listened to the voice of his heart and quit his job at the MIT, and took to work on his GNU Project full time, to which his dedication can be seen till date. He started working on the GNU Operating System and later started a non-profit organisation by the name Free Software Foundation. This Free Software Foundation became a common platform for all the free software programmers, all over the world, and further led to the creation of a legal platform for protecting them from the Copyrights of the proprietary software vendors. This involved the creation of term - Copyleft, to battle the term Copyright, used by the proprietary software vendors.
Today, many of the tools created by GNU are being used by many popular operating systems, most notably Linux. Infact the term "Linux Operating System" is not correct. The correct term is "GNU/Linux Operating System", since Linux is just a kernel, with all other tools being provided by GNU, and a combination of them makes the Operating System work together.
In his early days of his Free Software Movement, Richard M. Stallman, composed a song which later became an anthem for all Free Software enthusiasts all over the world.
We all can support RMS and our Free Software Movement by various methods listed on their website. Help doesn't mean monetary or financial or technical, we all can help in many other ways, based on our personal skills and knowledge.
Let us all congratulate RMS on his 60th birthday. God bless him a long life and we all wish that Free Software Foundation is successful in all its fronts.
Personal Website - http://stallman.org/
Wikipedia Page - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Matthew_Stallman
FSF Website - http://www.fsf.org/
There was a time when all software was free and open to all. But then, some proprietary software vendors introduced some licences which took away the user's freedom to share or modify or even have a look at the source code of the program they are using! This led to denial of the user to share the program with his friends or make changes to the source code of the program he is using. Stallman opposed this. Stallman believed that the attempts by such proprietary software vendors are unethical and anti-social.
Stallman founded the GNU Project in the year 1983. In the year 1984, Stallman listened to the voice of his heart and quit his job at the MIT, and took to work on his GNU Project full time, to which his dedication can be seen till date. He started working on the GNU Operating System and later started a non-profit organisation by the name Free Software Foundation. This Free Software Foundation became a common platform for all the free software programmers, all over the world, and further led to the creation of a legal platform for protecting them from the Copyrights of the proprietary software vendors. This involved the creation of term - Copyleft, to battle the term Copyright, used by the proprietary software vendors.
Today, many of the tools created by GNU are being used by many popular operating systems, most notably Linux. Infact the term "Linux Operating System" is not correct. The correct term is "GNU/Linux Operating System", since Linux is just a kernel, with all other tools being provided by GNU, and a combination of them makes the Operating System work together.
In his early days of his Free Software Movement, Richard M. Stallman, composed a song which later became an anthem for all Free Software enthusiasts all over the world.
RMS singing the Free Software Song
We all can support RMS and our Free Software Movement by various methods listed on their website. Help doesn't mean monetary or financial or technical, we all can help in many other ways, based on our personal skills and knowledge.
Let us all congratulate RMS on his 60th birthday. God bless him a long life and we all wish that Free Software Foundation is successful in all its fronts.
Personal Website - http://stallman.org/
Wikipedia Page - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Matthew_Stallman
FSF Website - http://www.fsf.org/
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