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In 1984, Richard Stallman founded the FSF (Free Software Foundation) and related GNU project (GNU's Not Unix). Stallman is the person who formalized then prevailing practices of the Unix / Internet operations and programming community into a licensing system called 'Free Software'. Later, other people renamed this to 'Open Source'.

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Stallman.org: Richard Stallman's Personal Page Founder of GNU Project and Free Software Foundation, and father and current maintainer of the One True Emacs. Read the Master in a background of quietly understated elegance. Personal essays, political opinions, travel experiences, brief biography. www.stallman.org

Wired Archive: Richard Stallman Stories involving Stallman. www.wired.com/wired/archive/people/richard_stallman

Salon 21st: The Richard Stallman Saga, Redux By Andrew Leonard. 'The saint of free software' sparks new debates about the philosophy of the open source movement: lively exchange between Stallman and Eric Raymond, and Tim O'Reilly response. www.salon.com/21st/feature/1998/09/11feature.html

Salon 21st: The Saint of Free Software By Andrew Leonard. Maverick Richard Stallman keeps the faith; and gives Bill Gates the finger. Entertaining true life reporter's experience of time spent with Stallman. www.salon.com/21st/feature/1998/08/cov_31feature.html

Linux Today: Richard Stallman, 15 Years of Free Software By Stallman: brief article taking stock of 15 years of progress; with feedback responses. linuxtoday.com/stories/4145.html

ZDNet: Interview: GNU guru Richard Stallman Mainly about the Uniform Computer Information Transaction Act: UCITA. www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2457092,00.html

An Ode to Richard Stallman Or Minutes to the NYSIA/WWWAC Software Summit. Long and very entertaining account of one person's encounter with Stallman and his ideas, in the context of a trade show. www.linuxgazette.com/issue37/adler.html

Prince Kropotkin of Software Portrait of the man and his anarchistic GNU project. www.softpanorama.org/People/Stallman/index.shtml

FAIFzilla Author's home to the book "Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software". Includes errata, links to translations, and updates. www.faifzilla.org