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Worker at the AI Lab at MIT
Learned operating system development -
Graduated from Harvard
He attended Harvard from 1970-1974 -
Graduate student at MIT
This time helped him learn a lot about software -
Announcement of the development of the GNU operating system
GNU operating system announcement and start of project -
Stopped working at the AI Lab at MIT
Resigned from his MIT job to work on the GNU project. -
Began his work on the GNU operating system
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Free Software Foundation is founded
This foundation was founded to raise money to help develop GNU -
GNU is created
GNU is created and allows users to have freedoms in software -
1st award received
Honorary life time membership in the Chalmers Computer Society -
Development of a free on-line encyclopedia
Allows people to contribute articles -
Free Software, Free Society Selected Essays of Richard M Stallman
A book of Stallman's essays are published -
National Academy of Engineering
Richard received a membership to the US National Academy of Engineering -
V3 of GNU GPL Release
Version 3 of the GNU General Public License was released -
Inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame
An honor to be inducted