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Stallman Becomes a Staff Member at the MIT AI Laboratory
In 1970, Stallman left behind the nightly dinnertime conversations about politics and the Vietnam War as he departed for Harvard (Williams 41). -
Richard Stallman works on two software projects while at MIT
Richard Stallman works on MIT AI lab TECO software, short for Text Editor COrrector(Williams 14). -
Garduates From Harvard
Stallman Graduates From Harvard with a B.A in Physics.
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Stallman Dropsout of MIT
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Stallman creates the GNU operating system
Stallman creates a UNIX-like operating system to make software accessible. He also announces the free software movement. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/floss-and-foss.en.html -
Stallman Resigns from the MIT Staff to work on GNU
As mentioned in the book Free As Freedom, Stallman pledges to build a free software operating system "or die trying of old age" (Williams 102). -
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GNU EMACS License Makes It's Debut
The GNU Emacs license is released (Williams 124). -
GNU General Public License Version 1.0 is Published
GNU's next project after the emacs release was followed by the GNU GPL Verison 1.0 (Williams 126). https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-1.0.html -
Linux is created by Linus Torvalds
The GNU/Linux system is a variant of GNU that also uses the kernel Linux developed by Linus Torvalds (Lightstone 10).https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about -
Winner of the Macarthur Fellowhip Award
Richard Stallman wins the Macarthur Fellowship Award(Williams 14).https://www.macfound.org/programs/fellows/ -
Winner of the Association of Computing Machinery's Grace Hopper Award
Winner of the Association of Computing Machinery's Grace Hopper Award (Willams 14). https://awards.acm.org/hopper -
Helped Inspire the Idea of Wikipedia
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Inducted into the Internet Hall of fame
Inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame
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Stallman ends his duties as visiting scientist at MIT
Stallman ends his duties as visiting scientist at MIT
