Stallman was born March 16, 1953, in New York City, to a family of Jewishheritage. He had a troublesome relationship with his parents and did not feel he had a proper home. He was interested in computers at a young age; when

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In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the hacker culturethat Stallman thrived on began to fragment. To prevent software from being used on their competitors' computers, most

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Stallman announced the plan for the GNU operating system in September 1983 on several ARPANET mailing lists and USENET. He started the project on

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Stallman has written many essays on software freedom, and has been an outspoken political campaigner for the free software movement

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In August and September 2019, it was learned that Jeffrey Epstein had made donations to MIT, and in the wake of this, MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito resigned. An internal MIT CSAIL listservmailing list thread was started to protest the coverup of MIT's connections to

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• 1986: Honorary lifetime membership of the Chalmers University of Technology Computer Society
• 1990: Exceptional merit award

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Stallman resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He speaks English, French, Spanish and some Indonesian. He has said that he is "an atheist of Jewishancestry" and often wears

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