Richard M. Stallman 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; he initiated the Free Software Movement; in October 1985 he founded the Free Software Foundation. [..] "Thanks to the Free Software Movement, I personally have escaped from proprietary software." [..] "Android source code is free software, but many phones make the executables nonfree by stopping users from running their own versions."