Robert J. Chassell

Robert "Bob" Chassell was one of the founding directors of the Free Software Foundation.

Life

Chassell was born on 22 August 1946, in Bennington, VT. He read economics at Peterhouse, Cambridge University.
In 1985, he became one of the founding directors of the FSF. While on the Board of Directors, he was also the treasurer for the FSF. At this time, he started the Texinfo documentation system for GNU together with Richard Stallman.
He left the FSF to become a full-time speaker on free software topics. He was diagnosed with progressive supranuclear palsy in 2010, and died as a result on 30 June 2017.
Chassell has authored several books including: