GNU 40th anniversary - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
www.gnu.org

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/5592397

Forty years ago, Richard Stallman announced the plan to develop the GNU operating system, which would be entirely composed of free software. The existence of a free operating system would enable people to operate their computers in freedom, throwing off the power of the developers of nonfree software. The GNU Project has also built the global free software movement.

  • Sethayy@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I think youre mixing up importance with being everything, gnu is insanely important and has had a lot of positive effects - but that doesn’t make it my second wife any more than it makes it an OS. its a software foundation at the end of the day.

    This even includes the linux-libre, its not all of gnu like all of gnu isn’t an os, one could extend the same idea to the KDE foundation too