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Richard Stall Born
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Attended Harvard
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MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
Started programming -
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Work at MIT
Added track layout to the Tech Model Railroad Club, wrote a PDP-11 simulator to run on the PDP-10 computer (Isaacson) -
Quit MIT
Quit because MIT bought a computer system where a nondisclosure agreement had to be signed to get an executable copy of the software for the computer -
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GNU Manifesto
Published the manifesto which included his motivation for creating a free operating system -
Free Software Foundation
Nonprofit corporation which employed free software programmers and provide a legal infrastructure for the free software movement. -
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Boycott of Apple Products
This boycott was in response of Apple's look and feel lawsuits. If a look and feel lawsuit was successful then this could put an end to free software that could be a substitute for commercial software -
GNU General Public License (GPL)
the first version of the GNU General Public License was used. -
GNU Project Close to Completion
The GNU system was complete except for the kernel. The kernel was developed by Linus Torvalds -
MacArthur Fellowship
Received the MacArthur reward (genius grant) -
Free Online Encycolpedia
Richard wanted to develop a free online encyclopedia with the public to contribute. Ended up being called GNUPedia but did not get far with the introduction of Wikipedia -
Left Free Software Foundation
Left the Free Saftware Foundation amid issues relating to Jerry Epstein -
Return to Free Software Foundation
The foundation decided they needed Stallman back because of all he could bring to the Foundation. -
The Church of Emacs
Robert Stallman is involved in this in some way. He has proclaimed himself as a Saint. http://emacs.nu/
