Unix People - Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Bill Joy, Paul Vixie, Eric Allman, Henry Spencer, Richard Stallman, Bradley M. Kuhn, Ken Thompson (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Bill Joy, Paul Vixie, Eric Allman, Henry Spencer, Richard Stallman, Bradley M. Kuhn, Ken Thompson, Daniel Robbins, John Gage, Tim Bray, Alan Emtage, Tom Duff, Rob Pike, Douglas McIlroy, John Lions, Stephen R. Bourne, Larry McVoy, John Mashey, David Korn, Stuart Langridge, Karl Lehenbauer, Peter H. Salus, Mike Lesk, Sarath Lakshman, Bruce Ellis, Alexandre Oliva, Stephen C. Johnson, Lee E. McMahon, Federico Heinz, Joe Ossanna, Lorinda Cherry. Excerpt: Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often shortened to rms, is an American software freedom activist and computer programmer. In September 1983, he launched the GNU Project to create a free Unix-like operating system, and he has been the project's lead architect and organizer. With the launch of the GNU Project, he initiated the free software movement; in October 1985 he founded the Free Software Foundation. Stallman pioneered the concept of copyleft, and he is the main author of several copyleft licenses including the GNU General Public License, the most widely used free software license. Since the mid-1990s, Stallman has spent most of his time advocating for free software, as well as campaigning against software patents, digital rights management, and what he sees as excessive extension of copyright laws. Stallman has also developed a number of pieces of widely used software, including the original Emacs, the GNU Compiler Collection, the GNU Debugger, and various tools in the GNU coreutils. He co-founded the League for Programming Freedom in 1989. Stallman was born to Daniel Stallman and Alice Lippman, in 1953 in New York City. His first experience with computers was while in high school at the IBM New York Scientific Center. He was hired for the summer to write a numerical analysis program in Fortran. He completed the task ...