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Birth
Richard Stallman was born -
MIT
Richard Stallman became a programmer at the AI Laboratory of MIT -
Harvard Graduation
Richard Stallman graduated from Harvard with a bachelor of arts degree in physics -
GNU
Richard Stallman announced the plan for the GNU operating system on several ARPAnet mailing lists and USENET -
Quit Job at MIT
Richard Stallman quit his job at MIT to work full-time on the GNU project -
GNU Manifesto
Stallman published the GNU Manifesto -
Copyleft
Stallman invented and popularized the concept of copyleft, a legal mechanism to protect the modification and redistribution rights for free software, which was first implemented in the GNU Emacs General Public License -
GPL
The first program-independent GNU General Public License was released -
GNU Hurd
Members of the GNU project began a kernel called GNU Hurd -
Wins MacArthur Foundation Fellowship
Richard Stallman won the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship Award -
Linux kernel
Linus Torvalds used the GNU development tools to produce the Linux kernel -
Emacs Fork
Developers at Lucid Inc. working on Emacs clashed with Stallman and forked the software, which later became XEmacs -
Wikipedia
Richard Stallman called for development of a free on-line encyclopedia through inviting the public to contribute articles which inspired the creation of Wikipedia -
Universidad Tecnológica Nacional
Richard Stallman receives honorary professorship from the Universidad Tecnológica Nacional in Mendoza, Argentina -
Resignation
Richard Stallman resigns from his position at MIT and resigns as president of the Free Software Foundation over comments he made concerning Jeffrey Epstein’s victims