Please mark your diary. Richard M Stallman speaks at Goa Engineering College Farmaguddi, 4 pm November 6, 2002. The Free Software Movement as we know it was founded in 1985 by Richard M. Stallman. The basic tenets of free software are -- freedom to study, freedom to change, freedom to share or distribute, the right to sell free software, and the principle that the software 'source' has always to accompany binaries.