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Birth
Richard Stallman is born on March 16, 1953. -
First Programming Experience
Stallman was hired in the summer of 1970 to write a numerical analysis program in Fortran. *NOTE: Date not exact -
Harvard
Stallman became a programmer at the MIT Artifical Intelligence Laboratory. *NOTE: Date not exact. -
MIT
After graduating from Hardvard with a bachelor's degree in Physics, Stallman decides to enroll as a graduate student at MIT. -
AI truth maintenance system
Stallman publishes a paper on intelligent backtracking and is still considered useful even today. *NOTE: Exact date not specified -
Events leading to GNU
Stallman is outraged by the markup language, Scribe, who prevented access to source code of the software. *NOTE: Date not exact -
Events leading up to GNU
Stallman refused access to laser printer to make modifications to make it easier to use. *NOTE: Date not exact -
GNU Announcement
Stallman announces the GNU project as a result of more and more not providing open source. *NOTE: Date not exact -
GNU
Stallman quits his job at MIT and begins work on the GNU Project. *NOTE: Date not exact -
GNU Manifesto
Stallman publishes the GNU Manifesto *NOTE: Date not exact -
Free Software Foundation
Stallman founds the Free Software Foundation, dedicating to providing open source software. *NOTE: Date not exact -
GNU GPL
Stallman helps create the GNU GPL *NOTE: Date not exact -
Linux Kernel
Linus Torvalds creates the kernal named Linux. Stallman is upset because it takes away from GNU message. *NOTE: Date not exact -
GNUPedia
Stallman helps create GNUPedia, a free online encylopedia. *NOTE: Date not exact -
Activism Efforts
Stallman convinces the Indian State of Kerala to used open source operating systems for school computers. *NOTE: Date not exact
