Richard Stallman

Richard Stallman

First appearance 198: Perspective
Appearances 11
For a list of comics, see Comics featuring Richard Stallman.

Richard Stallman 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. He launched the GNU Project, founded the Free Software Foundation in October 1985, developed the GNU Compiler Collection and GNU Emacs, and wrote all versions of the GNU General Public License.