In 1984, Richard Stallman founded the FSF (Free Software Foundation) and related GNU project (GNU's Not Unix). Stallman is the person who formalized then prevailing practices of the Unix/Internet operations and programming community into a licensing system called 'Free Software'. Later, other people renamed this to 'Open Source'. 1. FAIFzilla - Author's home to the book "Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software". Includes errata, links to translations, and updates. 2. Linux Today: Richard Stallman, 15 Years of Free Software - By Stallman: brief article taking stock of 15 years of progress; with feedback responses. 3. Prince Kropotkin of Software - Portrait of the man and his anarchistic GNU project. 4. Salon 21st: The Richard Stallman Saga, Redux - By Andrew Leonard. 'The saint of free software' sparks new debates about the philosophy of the open source movement: lively exchange between Stallman and Eric Raymond, and Tim O'Reilly response. 5. Salon 21st: The Saint of Free Software - By Andrew Leonard. Maverick Richard Stallman keeps the faith; and gives Bill Gates the finger. Entertaining true life reporter's experience of time spent with Stallman. 6. Stallman.org: Richard Stallman's Personal Page - Founder of GNU Project and Free Software Foundation, and father and current maintainer of the One True Emacs. Read the Master in a background of quietly understated elegance. Personal essays, political opinions, travel experiences, brief biography. 7. Wired Archive: Richard Stallman - Stories involving Stallman. 8. An Ode to Richard Stallman - Or Minutes to the NYSIA/WWWAC Software Summit. Long and very entertaining account of one person's encounter with Stallman and his ideas, in the context of a trade show. 9. ZDNet: Interview: GNU guru Richard Stallman - Mainly about the Uniform Computer Information Transaction Act: UCITA.

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