" Stallman states that while the term " Free Software " can lead to two different interpretations, one of them is consistent with FSF definition of Free Software so there is at least some chance that it could be understood properly, unlike the term " Open Source ".

Such controversy has led opponents of trusted computing, such as free software activist Richard Stallman, to refer to it instead as treacherous computing, even to the point where some scholarly articles have begun to place scare quotes around " trusted computing ".

Since Gosling had permitted its unrestricted redistribution, Richard Stallman used some Gosling Emacs code in the initial version of GNU Emacs.

There is still some controversy by notable programmers such as Alexander Stepanov, Richard Stallman and others, concerning the efficacy of the OOP paradigm versus the procedural paradigm.

* A speech from Richard Stallman in which he gives some background about Greenblatt

He also argues for the creation of shorter renewable periods of copyright and a limitation on derivative rights, such as limiting a publisher's ability to stop the publication of copies of an author's book on the internet for non-commercial purposes or create a compulsory licensing scheme to ensure that creators obtain direct royalties for their works based upon their usage statistics and some kind of taxation scheme such as suggested by professor William Fisher of Harvard Law School that is similar to a longstanding proposal of Richard Stallman.

In a note posted on the Free Software Foundation's news website in June 2009, Richard Stallman warned that he believes " Microsoft is probably planning to force all free C # implementations underground some day using software patents " and recommended that developers avoid taking what he described as the " gratuitous risk " associated with " depend on the free C # implementations ", including Portable. NET.

As the book was published under GFDL license, it enabled Stallman to address factual errors and clarify some of the Williams's mistaken or incoherent statements, bringing in his first-hand experiences and technical expertise where appropriate.

According to Stallman, " We disagree with the open source camp on the basic goals and values, but their views and ours lead in many cases to the same practical behavior — such as developing free software.

According to Stallman, " The only thing in the software field that is worse than an unauthorised copy of a proprietary program, is an authorised copy of the proprietary program because this does the same harm to its whole community of users, and in addition, usually the developer, the perpetrator of this evil, profits from it.

Stallman said that this is where people get the misconception of " free ": there is no wrong in programmers ' requesting payment for a proposed project.

Richard Stallman then goes into an explanation of why it is important that they complete this project.

Despite an optimistic announcement by Stallman in 2002 predicting a release of GNU / Hurd later that year, the Hurd is still not considered suitable for production environments.

Its founder, Richard Stallman, is referred to by Steven Levy as " the last true hacker ".

* Richard Stallman: Programmer and political activist who is well known for GNU, Emacs and the Free Software Movement

Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman argues that, although the term intellectual property is in wide use, it should be rejected altogether, because it " systematically distorts and confuses these issues, and its use was and is promoted by those who gain from this confusion.

Icaza responded on his blog to Stallman with the remark that he believes in a " world of possiblity " and that he is open for discussions on ways to improve the FOSS pool.

To Stallman, the important, fundamental difference is philosophical.

* The GNU Manifesto is first written by Richard Stallman.

This project is one of the older parts of the GNU package of software, having started in 1984, the author having collaborated with Richard Stallman, pre-GNU.

is a free software, mass collaboration project, announced on 27 September 1983, by Richard Stallman at MIT.

As Richard Stallman puts it, " Open source is a development methodology ; free software is a social movement.

Although it is clear that legally free software does qualify as open source, Stallman considers that the category is abusive.

Commentators such as Barlow ( 1994 ) have argued that digital copyright is fundamentally different and will remain persistently difficult to enforce ; others such as Stallman ( 1996 ) have argued that the Internet deeply undermines the economic rationale for copyright in the first place.

Richard Stallman chose Lisp as the extension language for his rewrite of Emacs ( the original used TECO as its extension language ) because of its powerful features, including the ability to treat functions as data.

The free software movement was conceived in 1983 by Richard Stallman to satisfy the need for and to give the benefit of software freedom to computer users.

The GNU Manifesto was written by Richard Stallman and published in March 1985 in Dr. Dobb's Journal of Software Tools as an explanation and definition of the goals of the GNU Project, and to call for participation and support.

People primarily known for their contributions to the consciousness of the programmer subculture of hackers include Richard Stallman, the founder of the free software movement and the GNU project, president of the Free Software Foundation and author of the famous Emacs text editor as well as the GNU Compiler Collection ( GCC ), and Eric S. Raymond, one of the founders of the Open Source Initiative and writer of the famous text The Cathedral and the Bazaar and many other essays, maintainer of the Jargon File ( which was previously maintained by Guy L. Steele, Jr .).

In 2001, he shared the Takeda Award for Social / Economic Well-Being with Richard Stallman and Ken Sakamura.

The four freedoms that must be guaranteed by free content are adapted from the four freedoms Richard Stallman called for in software.

Stallman counter-charges that OSI's pragmatic focus on a model for software development and marketing ignores what he considers to be the central " ethical imperative " and the focus on " freedom " that underlies free software, as he defines it, and blurs the distinction with semi-free or wholly proprietary software.

Richard Stallman suggested the name POSIX in response to an IEEE request for a memorable name.

When Richard Stallman and the GNU team were implementing POSIX for the GNU operating system, they objected to this on the grounds that most people think in terms of 1024 byte ( or 1 KiB ) blocks.

However, as a result of a decision by Richard Stallman motivated by copyright concerns, these quotes have been erased for GNU Emacs 22.

Richard Stallman claims that the University of Washington threatened to sue the Free Software Foundation for distributing the modified Pine program, resulting in the development of MANA ceasing and no versions being released.

This led Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, to found the League for Programming Freedom ( LPF ) and hold protests outside Lotus Development offices.

This criticism probably focuses unduly on the personality and ideology of Richard Stallman, who has nonetheless sought to solicit donors for such schemes.

League for Programming Freedom ( LPF ) was founded in 1989 by Richard Stallman to unite free software developers as well as developers of proprietary software to fight against software patents and the extension of the scope of copyright.

* Goldberg, RoseLee and Stallman, Nick, " Conversations .. with RoseLee Goldberg ', New York Foundation for the Arts, 2005

The Open Content License, dated July 14, 1998, predates the GNU Free Documentation License ( GFDL ) and other non-software public licenses, though discussions were held between David A. Wiley, creator of the Open Content License, and Richard Stallman, leader of the Free Software Foundation, who created the GNU General Public License for software and would create the GFDL.

In the GNU Manifesto, Stallman listed four freedoms essential to software development: freedom to run a program for any purpose, freedom to study the mechanics of the program and modify it, freedom to redistribute copies, and freedom to improve and change modified versions for public use.

To ensure code remained free and provide it to the public, Stallman created the General Public License ( GPL ), which allowed software and the future generations of code derived from it to remain free for public use.

Although provoking a vehement reaction in the software community, and causing Richard Stallman to form the League for Programming Freedom, the expected landmark ruling never happened, as most of the issues were resolved based on a license that Apple had granted Microsoft for Windows 1. 0.