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Actually, he claims to be a liberal -- but he even criticizes Obama for not being liberal enough!
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'''Richard M. Stallman''' ('''RMS''') is the founder of the [[GNU]] project and the [[Free Software Foundation]]. He is the brains behind the [[GNU]] General Public License (GPL). The GNU GPL is used in the [[GNU/Linux]] operating system, and in other popular software. Stallman was part of MIT's [[Artificial Intelligence Laboratory]] in the 1970s, where he did a lot of creative computer programming (which he and his friends called "[[hacking]]").
 
'''Richard M. Stallman''' ('''RMS''') is the founder of the [[GNU]] project and the [[Free Software Foundation]]. He is the brains behind the [[GNU]] General Public License (GPL). The GNU GPL is used in the [[GNU/Linux]] operating system, and in other popular software. Stallman was part of MIT's [[Artificial Intelligence Laboratory]] in the 1970s, where he did a lot of creative computer programming (which he and his friends called "[[hacking]]").
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He conceived of a notion of "[[free software]]" where the software is free as in "free speech", as opposed to "free beer", as he explains it. It is formally licensed as an alternative to the [[public domain]] and to other free licenses. He as actively promoted forming a worldwide community of programmers and software users who can all equally share the benefits of new and improved software donated to the community, a sort of communism of software, enforced through a subversive use of copyright law called "copyleft." Stallman is also an [[atheist]], and his website espouses a number of radical liberal political viewpoints, leading some to suspect that he is a [[communist]].  He has also dealt with the communist governments of Cuba and Venezuela, seeking to convince them to utilize open source software.
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He conceived of a notion of "[[free software]]" where the software is free as in "free speech", as opposed to "free beer", as he explains it. It is formally licensed as an alternative to the [[public domain]] and to other free licenses. He as actively promoted forming a worldwide community of programmers and software users who can all equally share the benefits of new and improved software donated to the community, a sort of [[communism]] of software development, enforced through a subversive use of "[[Open source#Copyleft|copyleft]]" copyright licenses.  
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== Stallman's political and religious views ==
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Stallman is also an [[atheist]], and his website espouses a number of radical [[liberal]] political viewpoints; while he refers to himself as "Liberal", some, in fact, suspect that he is a [[communist]], as he even criticized [[Barack Obama]] for being too [[conservative]]<ref>[http://stallman.org/archives/2009-sep-dec.html#10%20December%202009%20%28Obama%20is%20no%20Liberal%29 "Obama is no Liberal"]</ref>.  He has also dealt with the communist governments of [[Cuba]] and [[Venezuela]], seeking to convince them to utilize open source software.
    
== Blasphemy ==
 
== Blasphemy ==
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