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Richard Stallman was born
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Richard Stallman
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Stallman became a programmer at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
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Graduated from Harvard
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Starts Job as a research assistant at MIT
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Stallman developed the first extensible Emacs text editor
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Stallman published a paper on an AI truth maintenance system called dependency-directed backtracking
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Stallman was refused access to the source code for the software of a newly installed laser printer, the Xerox 9700
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Stallman Launches the GNU Project
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Stallman quit his job at MIT to work full-time on the GNU project
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Stallman published the GNU Manifesto
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Started the Free Software Foundation
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Co-founded the League for Programming Freedom
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Recieves MacArthur Foundation Fellowship
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Recieves the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer award
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Stallman called for development of a free online encyclopedia through the means of inviting the public to contribute articles