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The genius behind the GPL which made it possible for this website to exist!!!!!
'''Richard M. Stallman''' ('''RMS''') is the founder of the [[Free Software Foundation]] and the brains behind the [[GNU]] operating system, a [[Unix]] workalike (see also [[Linux]]). 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").
He conceived of the notion of "[[free software]]" being formally licensed as an alternative to the [[public domain]], thus 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.
He conceived of the notion of "[[free software]]" being formally licensed as an alternative to the [[public domain]], thus 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.