Richard+Stallman

**__ Richard Stallman __**- [|Richard Stallman] was born in New York in 1953. He was later hired to IBM and started writing his first program during the summer after his high school graduation. In June 1971 he was attending Harvard University. During his first year he became a programmer at the AI Laboratory of MIT. There he became a regular in the hacker community. Stallman enrolled as a graduate student in physics at MIT, but abandoned his graduate studies while remaining a programmer at the MIT AI Laboratory.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman)

__Open Source software__

To use free software is to make a political and ethical choice asserting the right to learn, and share what we learn with others. Free software has become the foundation of a learning society where we share our knowledge in a way that others can build upon and enjoy. Currently, many people use proprietary software that denies users these freedoms and benefits. If we make a copy and give it to a friend, if we try to figure out how the program works, if we put a copy on more than one of our own computers in our own home, we could be caught and fined or put in jail. That’s what’s in the fine print of the license agreement you accept when using proprietary software. The corporations behind proprietary software will often spy on your activities and restrict you from sharing with others. And because our computers control much of our personal information and daily activities, proprietary software represents an unacceptable danger to a free society.(http://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software).