He is one of the few famous hackers who never had a handle name. He was what you would call a old-school hacker. In 1971, he got a job working at MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab while he was still an undergraduate at Harvard. In the 1980s he stopped working for MIT but continued using an office there. This is where he created a new operating system called GNU-short for GNU's Not Unix. His contribution to the hacking world was, Free Software Foundation. He created this because he felt that software was viewed as private property. Something that is not readily know about him is, he was a recipient of a $240,000 MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant (discovery). He just recently published a book called; Free Software, Free Society: Select Essays of Richard M. Stallman. *This information can be found at* --> http://tlc.discovery.com/convergence/hackers/bio/bio_03.html <--