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Who's Who in IT: Question #4

 
Use the clues below to help you identify an important person in IT.

- During my college years, I worked as a staff hacker at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab.

- In 1975, I wrote the first extensible Emacs text editor.

- My biography says that my hobbies include international folk dance, flying, cooking, physics, playing the recorder, puns, science fiction, affection, and programming.

- I consider the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation to be my mission in life.

 

Who am I? _________________________________


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Answer: Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation.

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