Richard Stallman

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  • Born

    Born

    Born in New York
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag1AKIl_2GM

  • Worker at the AI Lab at MIT

    Learned operating system development

  • Graduated from Harvard

    He attended Harvard from 1970-1974
  • Graduate student at MIT

    Graduate student at MIT

    This time helped him learn a lot about software

  • Announcement of the development of the GNU operating system

    GNU operating system announcement and start of project

  • Stopped working at the AI Lab at MIT

    Resigned from his MIT job to work on the GNU project.
  • Began his work on the GNU operating system

    Began his work on the GNU operating system

  • Free Software Foundation is founded

    This foundation was founded to raise money to help develop GNU

  • GNU is created

    GNU is created and allows users to have freedoms in software

  • 1st award received

    Honorary life time membership in the Chalmers Computer Society

  • Development of a free on-line encyclopedia

    Allows people to contribute articles

  • Free Software, Free Society Selected Essays of Richard M Stallman

    A book of Stallman's essays are published

  • National Academy of Engineering

    Richard received a membership to the US National Academy of Engineering
  • V3 of GNU GPL Release

    V3 of GNU GPL Release

    Version 3 of the GNU General Public License was released

  • Inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame

    An honor to be inducted