GNU turns 25

Courtesy Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Wed, 09/03/2008 - 06:21

Today the GNU project celebrates its quarter-century. It was on 27 September 1983 that MIT slacker Richard M Stallman made his announcement that he intended to create a complete Unix-like system that would be completely open and hackable, giving anyone the right to modify and distribute the work.


 

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