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Stallman born to Alice Lippman and Daniel Stallman. New York City
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Became a programmer for the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
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Tasked to write numerical analysis program in FORTRAN during his summer as a senior in high school.
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1971-1974 Worked on various projects including TECO, Emacs, and the Lisp machine os, establishing his figure in the hacker community.
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Graduated magna cum laude with a degree in physics.
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Federal law regarding copyrights that began the shift in the perception of the free open source environment.
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Stallman and his colleagues were denied access of the source code of the software to the new Xerox 9700 printer. This prevented him from adding new helpful features to the program and had helped shape his view on the need for open source software.
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Symbolics was a company created off of Lisp Machines, Inc to market Lisp machines using capital funding. Against the idea of creating a monopoly, Stallman worked for 2 years to replicate Symbolics' results to prevent their domination on the market.
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Stallman leaves MIT to work full time on GNU project.
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Founded Free Software Foundation, focusing on the proliferation of free software.
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Stallman earns the Grace Mary Hopper Award for pioneering work in the development of the extensible editor EMACS (Editing Macros).
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Linus Torvaled develops the GNU kernel, Linux, one of the most wildly used operating systems to date.
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Stallman develops a free online encyclopedia available to everyone; later gives way to Wikipedia.
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Stallman persuades the government of the Indian State of Kerala to switch from proprietary software to free open source software.
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Earned the ACM Software System Award for the development and leadership of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), enabling extensive hardware and software innovation.
