Richard Stallman

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  • Born

    Richard Stallman was born March 16th, 1953 in New York City, New York.

  • Started Harvard

  • Period: to

    MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab

  • Period: to

    Graduate College

    Attended graduate school at MIT, but didn't graduate.

  • Graduated College

    Stallman graduated from Harvard University.

  • Published Dependency-Directed Backtracking

    Published with co-author Gerry Sussman

  • GNU Operating System

    Resigns from MIT and starts working on this project.

  • Created Copyleft

    Invented copyleft. "protect the modification and redistribution rights for free software," (computerhistory.org).

  • Free Software Foundation

    Started Free Software Foundation

  • GNU Manifesto

    Published GNU Manifesto

  • League of Programming Freedom

    Campaign against software rights and copyright.

  • Received McArthur Foundation Fellowship

  • Boycotted Apple

    Boycotted Apple. Boycott ended in 1995.

  • GNUpedia

  • India State of Kerala

    Persuaded them to switch to a free operating software system from Windows.