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. 



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