He’s got the Free Software Movement, and we’re going to talk to him about that. Richard’s a huge name in the technology industry. On the show, we have Richard Stallman who is a Harvard grad and the creator of the GNU Operating System, a Unix-like operating system meant to be entirely free software. Learn why this issue of trust, convenience, freedom and respect is in this space of technology. A good example is if you have a Windows system, then Microsoft has complete power over your computer Free software, like GNU, allows the user separate controls over the program like studying and changing the source code. Richard Stallman has been an advocate of the free software movement since 1985 and believes that a program should have four essential freedoms that will allow the user to control it as they wish and do anything they want with it, provided they have the knowledge to do so. This begs the question, are you in control of the computer or is the computer in control of you? With most operating systems out right now, the second one is the answer. There is probably no modern house today that doesn’t have a computer sitting inside it.
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