Images

Richard Stallman

By jordan20253
  • Stallman Becomes a Staff Member at the MIT AI Laboratory

    Stallman Becomes a Staff Member at the MIT AI Laboratory

    In 1970, Stallman left behind the nightly dinnertime conversations about politics and the Vietnam War as he departed for Harvard (Williams 41).

  • Richard Stallman works on two software projects while at MIT

    Richard Stallman works on MIT AI lab TECO software, short for Text Editor COrrector(Williams 14).
  • Garduates From Harvard

    Garduates From Harvard

    Stallman Graduates From Harvard with a B.A in Physics.
    https://stallman.org/biographies.html
  • Stallman Dropsout of MIT

    Stallman Dropsout of MIT

    By October 1975, he dropped out of MIT (Williams 79)
  • Stallman creates the GNU operating system

    Stallman creates the GNU operating system

    Stallman creates a UNIX-like operating system to make software accessible. He also announces the free software movement. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/floss-and-foss.en.html
  • Stallman Resigns from the MIT Staff to work on GNU

    Stallman Resigns from the MIT Staff to work on GNU

    As mentioned in the book Free As Freedom, Stallman pledges to build a free software operating system "or die trying of old age" (Williams 102).
  • The Launch of the Free Software Foundation

    The Launch of the Free Software Foundation

    https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/floss-and-foss.en.html

  • GNU EMACS License Makes It's Debut

    The GNU Emacs license is released (Williams 124).

  • GNU General Public License Version 1.0 is Published

    GNU's next project after the emacs release was followed by the GNU GPL Verison 1.0 (Williams 126). https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-1.0.html
  • Linux is created by Linus Torvalds

    Linux is created by Linus Torvalds

    The GNU/Linux system is a variant of GNU that also uses the kernel Linux developed by Linus Torvalds (Lightstone 10).https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about
  • Winner of the Macarthur Fellowhip Award

    Winner of the Macarthur Fellowhip Award

    Richard Stallman wins the Macarthur Fellowship Award(Williams 14).https://www.macfound.org/programs/fellows/
  • Winner of the Association of Computing Machinery's Grace Hopper Award

    Winner of the Association of Computing Machinery's Grace Hopper Award

    Winner of the Association of Computing Machinery's Grace Hopper Award (Willams 14). https://awards.acm.org/hopper

  • Helped Inspire the Idea of Wikipedia

    Encourages the idea of public contribution to articles
  • Inducted into the Internet Hall of fame

    Inducted into the Internet Hall of fame

    Inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame
    https://www.internethalloffame.org/
  • Stallman ends his duties as visiting scientist at MIT

    Stallman ends his duties as visiting scientist at MIT

    Stallman ends his duties as visiting scientist at MIT