This book is a biography of Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation and the creator of the GNU operating system. It chronicles his life from his early days as a computer programmer to his current role as a leader in the open source software movement
Richard Matthew Stallman, 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 C Compiler and GNU Emacs, and wrote all versions of the GNU General Public License.