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Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often abbreviated “rms“,^[2] is an American software freedom activist, hacker (programmer), ^[3] and software developer. In September 1983, he launched the GNU Project^[4] to create a free Unix-like operating system, and has been the project’s lead architect and organizer. With the launch of the GNU Project, he started the free software movement and, in October 1985, set up the Free Software Foundation. - Wikipedia

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