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Dr. Richard Stallman - INTERNET HALL of FAME INNOVATOR
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Dr. Richard Stallman (stallman.org) launched the Free Software Movement in 1983 by announcing the plan to develop the GNU operating system, intended to be composed entirely of free (freedom-respecting) software (gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html).
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He and others began developing GNU in 1984. The last gap in GNU was filled in 1992 when Linus Torvalds liberated his kernel, Linux, resulting in the combined GNU/Linux operating system (http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html) that is widely used today (gnu.org/distros). In 1985, Dr. Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation (fsf.org) and remains its president. In the early 1990s, Dr. Stallman moved from software development to advocacy, campaigning for various issues of freedom in the computing field. In 1989 he founded the League for Programming Freedom, which campaigned against software patents and interface copyrights. He now campaigns against those injustices and others, such as Digital Restrictions Management, Internet surveillance and censorship, and the practice of entrusting one's data or computation to servers run by companies. From September 1974 to June 1975, he was a graduate student in physics at MIT; He worked at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab from June 1971 through December 1983. There he developed the AI technique of dependency-directed backtracking, also known as truth maintenance. In 1976 he developed the first extensible Emacs text editor. He graduated from Harvard in 1974 with a Bachelor of Arts in physics and has received many honorary doctorates and awards, including a 1990 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.
http://www.internethalloffame.org/inductees/richard-stallman
INTERNET HALL of FAME INNOVATOR
Richard Stallman
Dr. Richard Stallman (stallman.org) launched the Free Software Movement in 1983 by announcing the plan to develop the GNU operating system, intended to be composed entirely of free (freedom-respecting) software (gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html). He and others began developing GNU in 1984. The last gap in GNU was filled in 1992 when Linus Torvalds liberated his kernel, Linux, resulting in the combined GNU/Linux operating system (http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html) that is widely used today (gnu.org/distros). In 1985, Dr. Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation (fsf.org) and remains its president. In the early 1990s, Dr. Stallman moved from software development to advocacy, campaigning for various issues of freedom in the computing field. In 1989 he founded the League for Programming Freedom, which campaigned against software patents and interface copyrights. He now campaigns against those injustices and others, such as Digital Restrictions Management, Internet surveillance and censorship, and the practice of entrusting one's data or computation to servers run by companies. From September 1974 to June 1975, he was a graduate student in physics at MIT; He worked at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab from June 1971 through December 1983. There he developed the AI technique of dependency-directed backtracking, also known as truth maintenance. In 1976 he developed the first extensible Emacs text editor. He graduated from Harvard in 1974 with a Bachelor of Arts in physics and has received many honorary doctorates and awards, including a 1990 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.
- See more at: http://www.internethalloffame.org/inductees/richard-stallman#sthash.5IjgVigP.dpufINTERNET HALL of FAME INNOVATOR
Richard Stallman
Dr. Richard Stallman (stallman.org) launched the Free Software Movement in 1983 by announcing the plan to develop the GNU operating system, intended to be composed entirely of free (freedom-respecting) software (gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html). He and others began developing GNU in 1984. The last gap in GNU was filled in 1992 when Linus Torvalds liberated his kernel, Linux, resulting in the combined GNU/Linux operating system (http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html) that is widely used today (gnu.org/distros). In 1985, Dr. Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation (fsf.org) and remains its president. In the early 1990s, Dr. Stallman moved from software development to advocacy, campaigning for various issues of freedom in the computing field. In 1989 he founded the League for Programming Freedom, which campaigned against software patents and interface copyrights. He now campaigns against those injustices and others, such as Digital Restrictions Management, Internet surveillance and censorship, and the practice of entrusting one's data or computation to servers run by companies. From September 1974 to June 1975, he was a graduate student in physics at MIT; He worked at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab from June 1971 through December 1983. There he developed the AI technique of dependency-directed backtracking, also known as truth maintenance. In 1976 he developed the first extensible Emacs text editor. He graduated from Harvard in 1974 with a Bachelor of Arts in physics and has received many honorary doctorates and awards, including a 1990 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.
- See more at: http://www.internethalloffame.org/inductees/richard-stallman#sthash.5IjgVigP.dpufINTERNET HALL of FAME INNOVATOR
Richard Stallman
Dr. Richard Stallman (stallman.org) launched the Free Software Movement in 1983 by announcing the plan to develop the GNU operating system, intended to be composed entirely of free (freedom-respecting) software (gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html). He and others began developing GNU in 1984. The last gap in GNU was filled in 1992 when Linus Torvalds liberated his kernel, Linux, resulting in the combined GNU/Linux operating system (http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html) that is widely used today (gnu.org/distros). In 1985, Dr. Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation (fsf.org) and remains its president. In the early 1990s, Dr. Stallman moved from software development to advocacy, campaigning for various issues of freedom in the computing field. In 1989 he founded the League for Programming Freedom, which campaigned against software patents and interface copyrights. He now campaigns against those injustices and others, such as Digital Restrictions Management, Internet surveillance and censorship, and the practice of entrusting one's data or computation to servers run by companies. From September 1974 to June 1975, he was a graduate student in physics at MIT; He worked at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab from June 1971 through December 1983. There he developed the AI technique of dependency-directed backtracking, also known as truth maintenance. In 1976 he developed the first extensible Emacs text editor. He graduated from Harvard in 1974 with a Bachelor of Arts in physics and has received many honorary doctorates and awards, including a 1990 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.
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What is the Internet Hall of Fame?
The Internet Hall of Fame is an annual awards program that has been established by the Internet Society to publicly recognize a distinguished and select group of visionaries, leaders and luminaries who have made significant contributions to the development and advancement of the global Internet. Inaugural inductees were announced on April 23, 2012 at the Internet Society’s Global INET conference in Geneva, Switzerland (www.internetsociety.org/globalinet).
“There are some extraordinary people who have helped make the Internet an unparalleled platform for innovation and communication, an engine for economic development and social progress that goes well beyond what we could have ever imagined. This program honors individuals who have pushed the boundaries to bring the Internet to life and made it an essential resource used by billions.”
– Internet Society CEO Lynn St. Amour
What is the Internet Hall of Fame?
The Internet Hall of Fame is an annual awards program that has been established by the Internet Society to publicly recognize a distinguished and select group of visionaries, leaders and luminaries who have made significant contributions to the development and advancement of the global Internet. Inaugural inductees were announced on April 23, 2012 at the Internet Society’s Global INET conference in Geneva, Switzerland (www.internetsociety.org/globalinet).“There are some extraordinary people who have helped make the Internet an unparalleled platform for innovation and communication, an engine for economic development and social progress that goes well beyond what we could have ever imagined. This program honors individuals who have pushed the boundaries to bring the Internet to life and made it an essential resource used by billions.”– Internet Society CEO Lynn St. Amour
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Publicerad den 15 juli 2013
Snowden and Assange besieged but not defeated, while privacy has a better chance now than it had before. We talk to freedom activist and free software developer Richard Stallman, who believes the fight against the total surveillance on the part of the governments is far from over. The founder of GNU project and Free software foundation speaks to Sophie Shevardnadze on SophieCo about the recent leaks of the NSA and social media.Publicerad den 15 juli 2013
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'Join fight for privacy now!' Stallman on Snowden & how to escape surveillance
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The time to join the battle for privacy is now, because whistleblowers like Edward Snowden and Julian Assange can’t fight against Big Brother on their own, software freedom activist and founder of the Free Software Foundation, Richard Stallman, told RT.
Stallman says that the revelations of NSA leaker Edward Snowden, who exposed secret US and British surveillance programs to the public, are a confirmation of his worst concerns - which he voiced over a decade ago.
“I am very happy that Snowden told us what the US government and some other governments are really doing,” he said in an interview with RT’s SophieCo program. “I had no proof – I’ve been saying for many years that if we look at the ‘Pa-Triot Act’ – I won’t call it ‘patriot’ because it’s as unpatriotic as you can get in a country based on an idea of freedom – I said, ‘look at this, I would guess that they are collecting all the data about everyone, regularly, fast enough so it doesn’t get erased between collections – but that was just a guess.”
But with the truth now available to the people, the activist believes that “Our cause now has more momentum. We might, maybe, be able to stop this.”
“Our freedom is at stake and this is true for people all around the world,” he said. “I would guess that every country is increasing surveillance through digital technology to a level that is unprecedented in the world’s history. Unless we had a great insufficiency of surveillance before, we should regard this as intolerable.”
The founder of GNU project and the Free Software Foundation urges those who are interested in winning back their privacy to start acting immediately in order to have any chance of success.
“If you want to have the possibility of some privacy someday, you’d better join the fight now, because now a bunch of other people are joining the fight.
- Now is the moment when you can make a difference,” he explained. “If you wait until the day you wish you had some privacy and only then try to do something…well, that day you will be one of a few people doing it and that won’t be enough.
- You’ve got to help make a critical mass when other people are doing it – and that’s now.”
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http://rt.com/shows/sophieco/snowden-leak-privacy-surveillance-093/
http://rt.com/news/nsa-privacy-snowden-stallman-130/***
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INTERNET HALL of FAME INNOVATOR
Richard Stallman
Dr. Richard Stallman (stallman.org) launched the Free Software Movement in 1983 by announcing the plan to develop the GNU operating system, intended to be composed entirely of free (freedom-respecting) software (gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html). He and others began developing GNU in 1984. The last gap in GNU was filled in 1992 when Linus Torvalds liberated his kernel, Linux, resulting in the combined GNU/Linux operating system (http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html) that is widely used today (gnu.org/distros). In 1985, Dr. Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation (fsf.org) and remains its president. In the early 1990s, Dr. Stallman moved from software development to advocacy, campaigning for various issues of freedom in the computing field. In 1989 he founded the League for Programming Freedom, which campaigned against software patents and interface copyrights. He now campaigns against those injustices and others, such as Digital Restrictions Management, Internet surveillance and censorship, and the practice of entrusting one's data or computation to servers run by companies. From September 1974 to June 1975, he was a graduate student in physics at MIT; He worked at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab from June 1971 through December 1983. There he developed the AI technique of dependency-directed backtracking, also known as truth maintenance. In 1976 he developed the first extensible Emacs text editor. He graduated from Harvard in 1974 with a Bachelor of Arts in physics and has received many honorary doctorates and awards, including a 1990 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.
- See more at: http://www.internethalloffame.org/inductees/richard-stallman#sthash.5IjgVigP.dpufINTERNET HALL of FAME INNOVATOR
Richard Stallman
Dr. Richard Stallman (stallman.org) launched the Free Software Movement in 1983 by announcing the plan to develop the GNU operating system, intended to be composed entirely of free (freedom-respecting) software (gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html). He and others began developing GNU in 1984. The last gap in GNU was filled in 1992 when Linus Torvalds liberated his kernel, Linux, resulting in the combined GNU/Linux operating system (http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html) that is widely used today (gnu.org/distros). In 1985, Dr. Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation (fsf.org) and remains its president. In the early 1990s, Dr. Stallman moved from software development to advocacy, campaigning for various issues of freedom in the computing field. In 1989 he founded the League for Programming Freedom, which campaigned against software patents and interface copyrights. He now campaigns against those injustices and others, such as Digital Restrictions Management, Internet surveillance and censorship, and the practice of entrusting one's data or computation to servers run by companies. From September 1974 to June 1975, he was a graduate student in physics at MIT; He worked at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab from June 1971 through December 1983. There he developed the AI technique of dependency-directed backtracking, also known as truth maintenance. In 1976 he developed the first extensible Emacs text editor. He graduated from Harvard in 1974 with a Bachelor of Arts in physics and has received many honorary doctorates and awards, including a 1990 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.
- See more at: http://www.internethalloffame.org/inductees/richard-stallman#sthash.5IjgVigP.dpufINTERNET HALL of FAME INNOVATOR
Richard Stallman
Dr. Richard Stallman (stallman.org) launched the Free Software Movement in 1983 by announcing the plan to develop the GNU operating system, intended to be composed entirely of free (freedom-respecting) software (gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html). He and others began developing GNU in 1984. The last gap in GNU was filled in 1992 when Linus Torvalds liberated his kernel, Linux, resulting in the combined GNU/Linux operating system (http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html) that is widely used today (gnu.org/distros). In 1985, Dr. Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation (fsf.org) and remains its president. In the early 1990s, Dr. Stallman moved from software development to advocacy, campaigning for various issues of freedom in the computing field. In 1989 he founded the League for Programming Freedom, which campaigned against software patents and interface copyrights. He now campaigns against those injustices and others, such as Digital Restrictions Management, Internet surveillance and censorship, and the practice of entrusting one's data or computation to servers run by companies. From September 1974 to June 1975, he was a graduate student in physics at MIT; He worked at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab from June 1971 through December 1983. There he developed the AI technique of dependency-directed backtracking, also known as truth maintenance. In 1976 he developed the first extensible Emacs text editor. He graduated from Harvard in 1974 with a Bachelor of Arts in physics and has received many honorary doctorates and awards, including a 1990 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.
- See more at: http://www.internethalloffame.org/inductees/richard-stallman#sthash.5IjgVigP.dpufPublicerad den 24 aug 2012
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‘Facebook is a monstrous surveillance engine’
Stallman says that corporations and the state “work hand in hand” in the US, as the Patriot Act obliges companies to “secretly” pass data to security services. According to the activist, the best way to protect your information is to refrain from using “nasty” services like Facebook, which he described as “a monstrous surveillance engine.”
He added that the “malicious technology” Apple and Microsoft provide “can’t be excused if it had some good effects.”
“We’ve got to realize that, first of all, Microsoft and Apple software is proprietary. That means the users don’t control the program, rather than the program controls the users – and that’s an injustice,” he stressed. “And the existence of proprietary, although it wasn’t for Microsoft or Apple back then, is why I started with the Free Software movement. In addition to setting things up so that they control the program and the program controls the users, they started putting in malicious functionality that spies on users and intentionally restricts users. There are even ‘back doors’ in that software, so, literally speaking, Apple and Microsoft software is malware.”
“We call Windows 8.1 ‘Windows Prison Edition’ because it’s designed to require people to send data to Microsoft servers, and of course, Microsoft will hand over any of that data to the US government on request. It puts the users in prison,” the activist added.
Stallman says that although many modern people have voluntarily traded their privacy for gadgets, he’s sure that “freedom is more important than innovation.”
“Companies are steering them by saying: ‘You could have this convenience, but only if you let us be nasty to you in that way.’ And yes, people who are not sensitized to the issue, they might say ‘yes,’ but there’s no fundamental reason why this convenience has to require that nastiness. It’s that a company figures that maybe they can get you to accept that nastiness by attaching it to this convenience. Now, if we had control of how things were built, we could have this convenience in most cases without that nastiness,” he explained.
Stallman says he doesn’t own a mobile phone because it’s a “surveillance and tracking device” which is monitoring the person’s location 24/7 and can be easily converted into a listening device by remotely installing specific software.
The activist says that even encrypted emails aren’t necessarily as private as one might think.
“You shouldn’t trust any encryption program, unless it’s free software and the encryption is being done on your copy on your computer,” he warned. “Encryption on a server isn’t trustworthy. How do you know they’re not saving a copy before they encrypt it and giving it to the NSA?”
Bitcoin, a cryptocurrency which is described as a tool of maintaining the privacy of transactions on the internet, “seems like a solution to some problems,” but its flaw is that it’s not totally anonymous, Stallman said.
“I think we need a payment system where the payer is anonymous. The payee doesn’t have to be anonymous, but it has to be so you can pay to access a webpage and do so anonymously,” he said. “I’m not saying we need total anonymity. We need anonymity from the one who’s paying to access the website. However, it’s okay if the website operators are not anonymous in receiving this money – after all, we want them to pay their taxes.”
http://rt.com/news/nsa-privacy-snowden-stallman-130/
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Publicerad den 13 juli 2012
Publicerad den 13 juli 2012
Richard Stallman, founder of the free software movement, says he is developing a browser which will prevent Facebook "Like" buttons from showing up.
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Are all people inherently qualified for freedom and democracy? What happens when it's thrust upon them before they are ready? And what does it mean to be free? Oksana Boyko is joined by the founder of the Free Software Foundation, Richard Stallman, to discuss these issues.
Read the full transcript: http://on.rt.com/1opyud
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Stallman: - If we don't fight surveillance, we lose our democracy
Publicerades den 6 feb. 2014
Freedom
and democracy are said to be guarantees of human rights, but as the NSA
spying scandal and the Arab Spring recently showed, that isn't always
the case. Are all people inherently qualified for freedom and democracy? What happens when it's thrust upon them before they are ready? And what does it mean to be free? Oksana Boyko is joined by the founder of the Free Software Foundation, Richard Stallman, to discuss these issues.
Read the full transcript: http://on.rt.com/1opyud
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Dr. Richard Stallman: - Dags att slåss mot "Big Brother" nu - eller tystna för alltid
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