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Richard Stallman was born.
According to his introduction, he was not a smart child when he was stuying in public school:" I was a discipline problem. I was very upset and miserable, and kids used to tease me, and it would make me enraged. I never believed that adults were entitled to give me orders. I considered them to be like any other kind of tyrant; they just had power."(Richard) Richard, Stallman.interview by Michael Gross."Richard Stallman: High School Misfit, Symbol.1999.Web.22.Feb.2016. -
Starting high school life
According to his introduction,after he was around 12 or 13, he basically didn’t have friends among his peers until he went to college. So he basically had no friends.(Richard ) Richard, Stallman.interview by Michael Gross."Richard Stallman: High School Misfit, Symbol.1999.Web.22.Feb.2016. -
First experience of computer
His first experience with actual computers was at the IBM New York Scientific Center when he was in high school. He was hired for the summer in 1970, following his senior year of high school, to write a numerical analysis program in Fortran.(Richard ) Richard, Stallman.interview by Michael Gross."Richard Stallman: High School Misfit, Symbol.1999.Web.22.Feb.2016. -
Freshmen in Harvard
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Working at Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT
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Graduated from Harvard University
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graduate student in physics at MIT
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writingt he first extensible Emacs text editor
As what he said:" I immediately got put to work writing parts of the system. It had an editor. A text editor [for writing computer code]. I started improving it. Eventually I improved it to the point where the original thing was just the sort of inside core that you’d never see."(Richard) Richard, Stallman.interview by Michael Gross."Richard Stallman: High School Misfit, Symbol.1999.Web.22.Feb.2016. -
Announcing the project of GNU
That is a beginning of his formal career: So during the spring or summer of 1983, I started looking and I realized that if I developed a free operating system for modern computers, that is, not specialized, unusual ones like the LISP machine but commonplace modern computers, then I could create a new community in which people could share."(Richard) Richard, Stallman.interview by Michael Gross."Richard Stallman: High School Misfit, Symbol.1999.Web.22.Feb.2016. -
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Publishing the GNU manifesto
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Starting Free Software Foundation
That was an organization…it’s a tax-exempt charity for free software development which was founded in 1985 to support the GNU project. (Richard) Richard, Stallman.interview by Michael Gross."Richard Stallman: High School Misfit, Symbol.1999.Web.22.Feb.2016. -
co-founded the League for Programming Freedom.
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spreading the ethical ideas of the free software movement
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Fondazione Pistoletto prize
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Protesting against proprietary software
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Doctorate honoris causa from Concordia University in Canada
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Doctorate honoris causa from Universidad las Américas in Peru.
