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Richard Stallman was born in Manhattan, New York to Alice Lippman and Daniel Stallman
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After his senior year in High School, Stallman wrote his first program for the PL/I programming language and writing text editor on the IBM 360.
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Stallmans enrolls into Harvard University and was known for his prowess in Math.
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After almost completing his first year at Harvard, Stallman becomes a programmer at the MIT labs and stitches himself to the hacker community.
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Stallman graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard earning a BA in Physics
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In 1977, Stallman publihsed an AI truth maintenance system called dependency-directed backtracking. As of 2009, this is still the most genera and powerful form of intelligent backtracking with Gerry Sussman.
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As a hacker at the MIT AI's lab, Stallman worked as a software projects such as TECO, Emack and the Lisp operating system. He worked with Gerry Sussman.
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Stallman announces his plan to introduce a GNU operating sysgtem on several ARPAnet mailing lists.
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He quits MIT to work on GNU project full time.
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Stallman published the GNU Manisfesto, which outlined his motivation for creating the free operating system which would be compatible with Unix.
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Stallman invented and popularized the concept of copyleft. A legal mechanism to protect modification and redistribution rights for free software.
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A non profit organization founded by Stallman to supports the freedom to study, create, distribute and modify software.
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The first program independent GNU General Public License. It included a text editor, complier, debugger and a build automator.
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Stallman helped to make it easier for those who wanted to write free software. It produced the Linux Kernel and could be combined with any software project.
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Stallman called for the development of a free online encyclopedia. It was retired after Wikipedia emerged.
