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Monday, January 05, 2004
Happy Birthday GNU
As noted by Dan Gillmor, today is the 20th Anniversary of the founding of GNU (Gnu's Not Unix).
Dan pretty much sums up my thoughts on all this:
- GNU's founder - Richard M. Stallman (RMS) - is not to everyone's taste.
- RMS' message - software wants to be free - is even a little hard for Linux kernel coders to take.
- Agree with RMS or not, the world would be much poorer without the benefits we've all reaped thanks to the founding of GNU, the start of the free/open-source software movement. Linux, Postgres, PHP, Apache...
Happy B-Day, indeed.