ESOC Timeline Assignment

By jstudevant
  • Birth

    Birth

    Richard Stallman is born in New York City.
  • Summer with an IBM

    Summer with an IBM

    Begins programming on an IBM 7094 at a summer program.
  • Joining MIT

    Joining MIT

    Joins the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab.
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    ITS

    Works on the Incompatible Timesharing System (ITS).
  • Creation of the EMACS text editor

    Creation of the EMACS text editor

    Creates the EMACS text editor (with Guy Steele).
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    Corporate restrictions enter MIT

    Increasing restrictions and NDAs at MIT AI Lab lead to the collapse of the open hacker culture.
  • Announcing the GNU Project

    Announcing the GNU Project

    Stallman publicly announces the GNU Project.

  • Leaving MIT

    Stallman leaves MIT to work full-time on GNU.
  • Publishing the Manifesto

    Publishing the Manifesto

    GNU Manifesto published
  • Birth of the FSF

    Birth of the FSF

    Stallman founds the Free Software Foundation (FSF).

  • GNU General Public License Version 1.0 Released

    Releases version 1.0 of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
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    GNU utilities mature

    Core GNU components (GCC 2.x, binutils, glibc 1.0) reach maturity.
  • Birth of Linux

    Birth of Linux

    Linus Torvalds releases Linux; later combined with GNU to form GNU/Linux.
  • Protesting DMCA

    Protesting DMCA

    Stallman helps form campaigns against DMCA restrictions.
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    Advocating for free software and digital rights

    Stallman continues global advocacy for free software and digital rights.