To join the Church of Emacs, one needs only pronounce the Confession of the Faith; it starts like this: 'There is no system but GNU, and Linux is one of its kernels.'
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"The purpose of the GNU Project is to give users freedom."
"Proprietary software is an injustice."
"People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking."
"Proprietary software is an attack on our freedom."
"Using proprietary software is like living under a dictatorship."
American programmer who founded the Free Software Foundation and the GNU Project, whose copyleft GPL licensing made the modern Linux ecosystem possible. Closely associated with Linus Torvalds (Linux kernel creator who builds on GNU userland) and Eric S. Raymond (open-source advocate (The Cathedral and the Bazaar)). For an intellectual contrast, see Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder — Gates's 1976 Open Letter to Hobbyists arguing for software-as-property is the foundational document Stallman's GPL was specifically written to refute — the two opposing answers to 'who owns the code'.
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