Dr.
Richard M. Stallman
Free Software Foundation
Computer scientist (software development)
Area
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Specialty
Computer Sciences
Elected
2003
President. Launched the Free Software Movement, which advocates users' freedom to study, change, and redistribute software, and led the development of the GNU operating system. Widely used GNU/Linux variant of GNU, which uses Linux as the kernel, is often inaccurately called Linux. Also developed Emacs and GCC.
Last Updated