Richard Marx Stallman is often referred to by his initials of "RMS". RMS is moderately famous for the establishment of the Free Software Foundation, and GNU (GNU's Not Usable) Software. His various projects (based out of the MIT Media Lab) have essentially changed the software industry, and, along with Linus Torvalds (the original developer of the rampantly popular Linux knock off of UNIX and, as select others would argue, Minix), has suddenly gained a following. Of course, before Linus released Linux, his fame was close to null.
