Richard Stallman
Richard Matthew Stallman (1953–) also known as RMS, is an American free software advocate and programmer. Stallman is associated with the GNU Project, the GNU Public License (GPL), and the Free Software Foundation (FSF), as well as developing the GNU Emacs text editor. Stallman is considered to have founded the free software movement when he began the FSF in 1983. He has struggled against private interests in the software industry for forty years and continues to advocate for his views.
Stallman's political beliefs could be characterized as idiosyncratically left-libertarian; in addition to his support for user freedoms, Stallman is a frequent critic of right-libertarianism[1] and modern bourgeois democracy,[2] maintaining that modern social issues stem from capitalistic ("plutocratic") influence over the state rather than from the state form itself. However, Stallman has also stated that "profit is not wrong in itself" and "free software combines some capitalist ideas, some socialist ideas and some anarchist ideas. So it doesn’t fit into the usual political spectrum."[3] On his personal blog, Stallman insistently refers to police as "thugs". Stallman is an associate and advocate of journalist Julian Assange.
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Controversy
Alleged defense of Jeffery Epstein
In September 2019, Stallman resigned from MIT and the Free Software Foundation after leaked emails he sent were publicized which contained apologia towards the associates of bourgeois sex-trafficker and pedophile Jeffery Epstein and also downplaying the extent of the scandal.[4]
See also
References
- ↑ "Glossary: Laissez-mourir". Richard Stallman's Personal Page. 2022-02-05. Retrieved 2023-05-09.
- ↑ "Why We Need A State". Richard Stallman's Personal Page. 2013-12-16. Retrieved 2023-05-09.
- ↑ Srinivasan, Sriram (2012-02-13). "The Stallman philosophy". Economic Times Blog. Retrieved 2023-05-09.
- ↑ Victoria Bekiempis (September 17, 2019). "MIT scientist resigns over emails discussing academic linked to Epstein" The Guardian
External links
- Stallman.org, Stallman's personal site
- Free as in Freedom , 2002 biography of Stallman available on Wikisource under a GNU Free Documentation License