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Richard Stallman

Stallman announced the GNU project to build a free operating system and helped establish the free-software movement.

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Stallman announced the GNU project to build a free operating system and helped establish the free-software movement.

Context and limits

Here free concerns users’ freedoms rather than only price. The project, foundation, licenses and many contributors are related parts of a wider history.

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  • No executable example check recorded
  • Independent human review pending

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Source assessment: . 1 of 1 selected claims marked supported by the assessor. This is not a coverage percentage for the article.

  1. Stallman announced the GNU project to build a free operating system and helped establish the free-software movement.

    Assessor finding: supported · historical · Article passage

    • FSF History — Free Software Foundation — GNU announcement, Manifesto and FSF incorporation
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    Scoped assessment of the contribution paragraph; the context section supplies editorial reading guidance.

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Limits and open work

  • Concise introductory profile, not a complete biography.
  • Introductory assessment of the cited contribution; no independent confirmation of priority claims is asserted.

Independent human review

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Content fingerprint: 3e64e13d3d1297e198e951d3fe9da4c084ab73488a0aa51d02eb67f5cea54de6. An article change invalidates this assessment.

Sources

  1. FSF History — Free Software Foundation

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