Free as in Freedom (2.0): Richard Stallman and the Free Software Revolution

Richard M. Stallman is an internationally recognized computerprogrammer, political activist, and author. In 1983 he founded thefree software movement---an organized effort to protect computerusers' freedom---by launching the GNU Project, which seeks to puttogether a body of software sufficient to end users' dependence onproprietary software. He coined the term "copyleft" and is the mainauthor of several copyleft licenses, including the most widely usedfree software license, the GNU General Public License, whichguarantees the four freedoms to all users of software placed under it:the freedom to run, study, modify, and redistribute the program. TheGNU/Linux System (basically the GNU operating system with the kernelLinux added) is today used on tens of millions of computers.Stallman is the recipient of numerous awards, including the ACM GraceHopper Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the ElectronicFrontier Foundation's Pioneer Award, and the Takeda Award for Socialand Economic Well-Being.