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Stallman began his lifelong journey through life on the 16th of March of 1953. (Picture is not Richard Stallman) -
Stallman enters MIT's AI laboratory as a programmer. His tech career officially began in this lab. -
He completed his 4 year journey with a Bachelor's in Physics but chose to stay at MIT in their AI lab. -
EMACS is a highly extensive text editor and during Stallman's years at MIT, he helped in the creation of it. -
In 1983, RMS publicly announced the creation of the GNU project. This project hoped to create a completely free Unix like operating system. -
Shortly after announcing the creation of the GNU project, Richard left the MIT AI lab in pursuit of the project and it's success. -
After announcing the GNU project, Richard Stallman created and founded the Free Software Foundation. -
In 1989, the 1.0 version of the GPL had officially released. This also was the first appearance of the "copyleft" idea. -
Utilizing the GPL that Stallman had made, Linus Torvalds created the Linux kernel that used the GNU that Stallman had created. -
Savannah is a free software development tool that used the GNU for GNU projects. -
Intensified advocacy for anti-DMCA and software patents raged and Stallman backed the act with the motive that it blocked user freedoms. -
Stallman began the public drafting process of the GPL and refurbishing of the idea.
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After much drafting, the GPLv4 had officially released to the public. It addressed issues such as Tivoization and DRM. -
After many years of work, Stallman had resigned from the FSF and MIT board over comments made during the Epstein case. -
Regardless of public opinion, Richard Stallman returned to the board of the FSF and remains there to this day.