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Richard Stallman was born on March 16, 1953 in New York City.
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Stallman began his hacker career when he started working with AI Laboratories at MIT.
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Stallman graduated with a physics degree from Harvard University.
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Richard Stallman developed the Emacs software system. It was the first of its kind as an expandable text editor.
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Stallman began his work leading a team in his GNU Project. This sparked the "free software movement".
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Stallman created the Free Software Foundation prior to the invention of GNU. This is a nonprofit foundation which supports his original project.
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Richard Stallman created copyleft. He spread this concept to enforce rights for free software.
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Stallman published the GNU Manifesto. This manifesto explained the reasoning behind GNU, and explained the process and how it can be used with UNIX.
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Richard Stallman was initiated into the Chalmers Computer Society as an honorary lifetime member.
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Stallman co-founded this league to promote the rights of hacking freedom.
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Stallman released GPL, which is associated with GNU. GPL is the first independent network created by Stallman.
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Stallman published this paper to aid in the globalization of computing. It aided in the creation of publishing an open-source encyclopedia.
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Richard Stallman was awarded multiple honoraries from Peru. He was granted awards from Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, University of Pavia and Universidad Nacional de Trujillo.
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Richard Stallman was invited to be in the Internet Hall of Fame, one of the highest awards granted in his field.
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Stallman resigned from both the Free Software Foundation and MIT. He stepped down after he discredited a victim of Jeffrey Epstein while he was being accused of being a sex offender.