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Richard Stallman

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Richard Matthew Stallman ( STAWL-mən; born March 16, 1953), also known by his initials, rms, is an American free software movement activist and programmer. He campaigns for software to be distributed in such a manner that its users have the freedom to use, study, distribute, and modify that software. Software which ensures these freedoms is termed free software. Stallman launched the GNU Project, founded the Free Software Foundation (FSF) in October 1985, developed the GNU Compiler Collection and GNU Emacs, and wrote all versions of the GNU General Public License. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Stallman is the 2nd most popular computer scientist (up from 4th in 2019), the 106th most popular biography from United States (up from 502nd in 2019) and the most popular American Computer Scientist.

Richard Stallman is a computer programmer who is most famous for his work on the GNU Project, which he started in 1983. The GNU Project's goal is to create a free operating system that would be compatible with Unix.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Richard Stallman ranks 2 out of 245. Before him are Alan Turing. After him are Grace Hopper, Satoshi Nakamoto, Tim Berners-Lee, John McCarthy, Barbara Liskov, Dennis Ritchie, Frances E. Allen, Donald Knuth, Edsger W. Dijkstra, and Geoffrey Hinton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Richard Stallman ranks 2. Before him is Xi Jinping. After him are Brigitte Macron, Zico, Moon Jae-in, Herta Müller, Jerome Powell, Jeffrey Epstein, Steve Bannon, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Ahmad Shah Massoud, and Tony Blair.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Stallman ranks 106 out of 20,380. Before him are Abraham Maslow (1908), Anthony Fauci (1940), Dustin Hoffman (1937), Theodore Roosevelt (1858), Charles H. Townes (1915), and Bernie Madoff (1938). After him are Louis Armstrong (1901), Marvin Gaye (1939), Vince McMahon (1945), Jim Morrison (1943), Calvin Klein (1942), and John Stith Pemberton (1831).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Richard Stallman ranks 1. After him are Grace Hopper (1906), John McCarthy (1927), Barbara Liskov (1939), Dennis Ritchie (1941), Frances E. Allen (1932), Donald Knuth (1938), Ray Kurzweil (1948), Marvin Minsky (1927), John Cocke (1925), Don Norman (1935), and Andrew S. Tanenbaum (1944).

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