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Richard Stallman is born
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Student at Harvard
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Worked at Artificial Intelligence Lab
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Graduated with a Bachelors in Physics
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Graduate student at MIT
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Developed the first extensible Emacs text editor
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Stallman announced the project to develop the GNU operating system and launch of the Free Software Movement
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Resigned from MIT and began to work on GNU project
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Started the Free Software Foundation
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Award: Honorary lifetime membership in the Chalmers Computer Society
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Founded the League for Programming Freedom
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Award: MacArthur Foundation Fellowship
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Stallman developed a free on-line encyclopedia
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GNU General public license released
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Internet Hall of Fame
