Founder of the Free Software Foundation and one of the most popular figures in open-source. A complete nutjob of a person.
-Richard Stallman has called
Bill Gates evil for asking users to
stop pirating his software (a version of BASIC)
-Richard Stallman has accused the
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation of ruining many third-world countries
-Richard Stallman says that proprietary software is outright evil
-Richard Stallman is obsessed with the phrase "GNU
Slash Linux" and
will correct anyone who calls it just "Linux" to no end. He's also been known to refuse speaking requests to those that don't use "proper" terminology.
-Richard Stallman, in his new GPLv3, won't let any GPL'ed software be used on hardware that implements DRM, hurting relations with hardware vendors.
"Protesting against proprietary software in April
2006, Richard Stallman held a 'Don't buy from ATI, enemy of your
freedom' placard at a speech by an ATI representative in the building where Stallman works, resulting in the
police being called"
You can't make this stuff up