The new printer was jammed, again.

Numerous signs scattered throughout the first floor preach the dangers of unsecured doors and propped-open fire exits.

Around age seven, two years after the divorce and relocation from Queens, Richard took up the hobby of launching model rockets in nearby Riverside Drive Park

For Stallman, the "Impeach God" message worked on many levels.

The AI Lab of the 1970s was by all accounts a special place.

Free software is a moral issue for Richard Stallman believes in freedom and free software.

Free as in Freedom, by Sam Williams, is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. You can jump to any chapter in this book here. GNU/LINUX

"I am St. Ignucius of the Church of Emacs," says Stallman, raising his right hand in mock-blessing. "I bless your computer, my child."

By the spring of 1985, Richard Stallman had settled on the GNU Project's first milestone-a Lisp-based free software version of Emacs.

By the time of the conference, the tension between those two camps had become palpable.

Richard Stallman stares, unblinking, through the windshield of a rental car, waiting for the light to change as we make our way through downtown Kihei.

Sarah Mei goes over Richard Stallman.