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Born
Richard Stallman was born March 16th, 1953 in New York City, New York. -
Started Harvard
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MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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Graduate College
Attended graduate school at MIT, but didn't graduate. -
Graduated College
Stallman graduated from Harvard University. -
Published Dependency-Directed Backtracking
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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
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Boycotted Apple
Boycotted Apple. Boycott ended in 1995. -
GNUpedia
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India State of Kerala
Persuaded them to switch to a free operating software system from Windows.