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Portrait of Richard Stallman

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Richard Stallman

launched GNU and the GPL

b. 1953age 73Living

Launched the GNU Project in 1983 and wrote the GNU General Public License, the legal invention that made free software durable: you may do anything with this code except stop the next person from doing the same. Uncompromising to a fault, and the reason a great deal of the world's infrastructure is not anyone's property.

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