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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 61. Chapters: Lawrence Lessig, Trent Reznor, Jack Valenti, Richard Stallman, Mark Cuban, Cory Doctorow, Danger Mouse, Wu Ming, Edward Felten, Saul Williams, Negativland, Beatallica, Mike Godwin, Eben Moglen, Viktor Alksnis, Benjamin Mako Hill, Steve Connell, Charlie Angus, James Boyle, Heather Ford, Siva Vaidhyanathan, Christian Engstrom, Jeff Burk, Taalam Acey, Yochai Benkler, Kembrew McLeod, Scott Greenall, Wouter Tebbens, David A. Wiley, Georg C. F. Greve, Pamela Samuelson, Suw Charman-Anderson, Gottfrid Svartholm, Peter Sunde, Randy Saaf, Ken Freedman, Rickard Falkvinge, Marjorie Heins, Robin Gross, Bruce Lehman, William John Sullivan, Eric Eldred, Michael W. Carroll, Quinn Norton, Ronaldo Lemos, Amelia Andersdotter, Jenny Toomey, Fredrik Neij, Seth Schoen, Stuart Langridge, Wendy Seltzer, Cindy Cohn, Kai Puolamaki, Franco Iacomella, Anna Troberg, David Bravo Bueno, Fred von Lohmann, Peter Drahos, Edgar David Villanueva, Stefan Flod, Patrice Riemens, Gigi Sohn. Excerpt: Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often shortened to rms, is an American software freedom activist and computer programmer. In September 1983, he launched the GNU Project to create a free Unix-like operating system, and he has been the project's lead architect and organizer. With the launch of the GNU Project, he initiated the free software movement; in October 1985 he founded the Free Software Foundation. Stallman pioneered the concept of copyleft, and he is the main author of several copyleft licenses including the GNU General Public License, the most widely used free software license. Since the mid-1990s, Stallman has spent most of his time advocating for free software, as well as campaigning against software patents, digital rights management, and what he sees as excessive extension of copyright laws. Stallman has also developed a number of p...