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Richard Stallman Born nd Raised in New York, New York
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Worked at MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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Begins College at Harvard University
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Graduated Harvard
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Worked as a Research assistant at MIT
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Creates a new version of Emacs text editor called GNU Emacs
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Stallman publicly declares all codes and softwares should be free
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Began to work on GNU operating systems
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Publishes the GNU Manifesto
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Stallman establishes non-profit organization Free Software Foundation
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Created GNU GPL
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GNU Linux operating system
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The Free Universal Encyclopedia and Learning Resource
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GNU development began supporting newer C and C++
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Richard Stallman resigns as president of the Free Software Foundation