# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-09-01T05:03:47.908Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Richard Matthew Stallman launched the GNU Project in September 1983 to build a Unix-like operating system made entirely of free software, kicking off the free software movement itself. He developed key GNU tools — the C Compiler, Debugger, GNU Emacs — and pioneered copyleft, using copyright law to guarantee users' rights to use, study, modify, and distribute code. In October 1985 he founded the Free Software Foundation and wrote all versions of the GNU General Public License, now the most widely used free software license. Since the mid-1990s he's spent most of his time advocating for software freedom and against patents, digital rights management, and proprietary formats. In September 2019 he resigned as FSF president and left MIT after controversial comments about the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, but remained head of the GNU Project and returned to the FSF board in 2021.