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Richard Stallman was born -
Richard Stallman became a programmer at the AI Laboratory of MIT -
Richard Stallman graduated from Harvard with a bachelor of arts degree in physics -
Richard Stallman announced the plan for the GNU operating system on several ARPAnet mailing lists and USENET -
Richard Stallman quit his job at MIT to work full-time on the GNU project -
Stallman published the GNU Manifesto -
Stallman invented and popularized the concept of copyleft, a legal mechanism to protect the modification and redistribution rights for free software, which was first implemented in the GNU Emacs General Public License -
The first program-independent GNU General Public License was released -
Members of the GNU project began a kernel called GNU Hurd -
Richard Stallman won the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship Award -
Linus Torvalds used the GNU development tools to produce the Linux kernel -
Developers at Lucid Inc. working on Emacs clashed with Stallman and forked the software, which later became XEmacs -
Richard Stallman called for development of a free on-line encyclopedia through inviting the public to contribute articles which inspired the creation of Wikipedia -
Richard Stallman receives honorary professorship from the Universidad Tecnológica Nacional in Mendoza, Argentina -
Richard Stallman resigns from his position at MIT and resigns as president of the Free Software Foundation over comments he made concerning Jeffrey Epstein’s victims
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