Richard Stallman has received broad recognition for his work. He has been granted a number of honors and awards, including national and international prizes, induction into the Internet Hall of Fame, and several honorary doctorates and professorships from universities around the world. Here they are listed in chronological order.

• 1986: Honorary lifetime membership in the Chalmers Computer Society. Mentioned in the announcement of a talk at the Chalmers University of Technology. (Archived)



• 1990: MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (Genius Grant). McArthur Fellows Class of 1990. (Archived)



• 1990: The ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award For pioneering work in the development of the extensible editor EMACS (Editing Macros). (Archived)



• 1996: Doctorate honoris causa from Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology. (Archived)



• 1998: Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer award. (Archived)



• 1999: Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Award.



• 2001: The Takeda Techno-Entrepreneurship Award for Social/Economic Well-Being. (Archived)



• 2001: Doctorate honoris causa from the University of Glasgow. (Archived)



• 2002: United States National Academy of Engineering membership. (Archived)



• 2003: Doctorate honoris causa from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. (Archived)



• 2003: Honorary professorship from the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería del Perú (UNI). Mentioned in the announcement of a talk at the same university in 2008.



• 2004: Doctorate honoris causa from the Universidad Nacional de Salta, Argentina. (Archived)



• 2004: Honorary professorship from the Universidad Tecnológica del Perú. (Not found on line)



• 2005: Fondazione Pistoletto prize. Reported in Il Sole 24 Ore newspaper (Archived). Reported in an FSF blog post (Archived).



• 2007:Honorary professorship from the Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Perú.



• 2007: First Premio Internacional Extremadura al Conocimiento Libre, Spain. (Archived)



• 2007: Doctorate honoris causa from the Universidad de Los Angeles de Chimbote, Perú. (Not found on line)



• 2007: Doctorate honoris causa from the University of Pavia, Italy.



• 2008: Doctorate honoris causa from the Universidad Nacional de Trujillo, Perú. (Not found on line)



• 2009: Doctor of Science honoris causa from Lakehead University, Canada. (Archived)



• 2011: Doctorate honoris causa from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. (Archived)



• 2012: Honorary professorship from the Universidad César Vallejo de Trujillo, Perú. (Not found on line)



• 2012: Doctorate honoris causa from the Universidad Latinoamericana Cima de Tacna, Perú. (Archived)



• 2012: Doctorate honoris causa from the Universidad José Faustino Sanchez Carrión, Perú. (Not found on line)



• 2013: Inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame. (Archived)



• 2014: Doctorate honoris causa from Concordia University, Canada. (Archived)



• 2015: Doctorate honoris causa from Universidad las Américas, Perú. (Not found on line)



• 2016: The ACM Award for development of GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection. (Archived)



• 2016: Doctorate honoris causa awarded jointly by the Université Pierre et Marie Curie and Paris-Sorbonne, France.



• 2016: Social Medicine award, from GNU Solidario. (Archived)



• 2017: Doctorate honoris causa from the Universidad Nacional de Jujuy, Argentina. (Archived)



• 2018: Doctorate honoris causa from the Universidad de Tucumán, Argentina. (Archived)



• 2018: Honorary professorship from the Universidad Tecnológica Nacional de Mendoza, Argentina. Announced in Los Andes newspaper. (Archived)

Stallman published two concise notes about his resignations from MIT and the FSF.

• Resignation from MIT (Archived)

  
  
  

  16 September 2019 (Resignation)

  To the MIT community,

  I am resigning effective immediately from my position in CSAIL at MIT. I am doing this due to pressure on MIT and me over a series of misunderstandings and mischaracterizations.

  
  
  

  Richard Stallman





• Resignation from the FSF (Archived)

  
  
  

  written Sep 16, mailed by me Sep 19, posted Sep 24 (FSF)

  To the FSF board,

  
  
  

  I hereby resign as president of the Free Software Foundation and from its board of directors. I am doing this due to pressure on the Foundation and me over a series of misunderstandings and mischaracterizations of what I have said.

  
  
  

  Richard Stallman

  
  
  

          The FSF announced Stallman's resignation on September 16 (Archived)

  
  
  

  Richard M. Stallman resigns

  by Free Software Foundation — Published on Sep 16, 2019 10:08 PM

  On September 16, 2019, Richard M. Stallman, founder and president of the Free Software Foundation, resigned as president and from its board of directors.

  The board will be conducting a search for a new president, beginning immediately. Further details of the search will be published on fsf.org.

  For questions, contact FSF executive director John Sullivan at johns@fsf.org.

As we can see, Stallman stated the same cause in both cases, namely, misunderstandings and mischaracterizations. We mentioned in the introduction that Stallman was misquoted and misrepresented by mainstream media and, as a result, he was the victim of ad hominem attacks by groups who demanded his removal from public life. ⬆