Richard Stallman Inducted Into Internet Hall of Fame

Richard Stallman, the founder of Free Software Foundation joined the ranks of notable individuals who have been inducted into the Internel Hall of Fame for his significant contributions to the advancement of the global internet. Stallman made a significant contributions to the computing world as the creator of the GNU project, and the main author of GNU General Public License aside from his philosophical contributions as founder of the Free Software movement. Richard Stallman was named as an Innovator, a category which recognizes and celebrates individuals who made outstanding technological, commercial, or policy advances and helped to expand the Internet's reach. During Stallman's induction to Hall of Fame, he was quoted as saying that, "Now that we have made the Internet work, the next task is to stop it from being a platform for massive surveillance, and make it work in a way that respects human rights, including privacy." Richard Stallman is a software developer and software freedom activist, during the year 1983, he announced the project to develop the GNU operating system, a Unix-like operating system meant to be entirely free software. He has been the project leader ever since and during his founding of GNU, he also launched the free software movement. In the month of October 1985, he started the Free Software Foundation. Stallman is the man behind the development of a number of widely used software components of GNU, including the original Emacs, the GNU Compiler Collection, the GNU symbolic debugger (gdb), GNU Emacs, and various other programs for the GNU operating system. Stallman pioneered the concept of copyleft, and is the main author of the GNU General Public License, the most widely used free software license. For the complete list of the 2012-2013 Internet Hall of Fame just visit the official Internet Hall of Fame website.