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Although free software had thus been an issue among hackers for years, what is now called the "free software movement" began in 1983 when Richard Stallman launched a project to build a free software operating system called [[GNU Project|GNU]]. GNU is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_acronym recursive acronym] that stands for "GNU's Not Unix". The founding goal of the project was to develop "a sufficient body of free software ... to get along without any software that is not free." Software development began on January 5, 1984, when Stallman quit his job at Massachusetts Institute of Technology so that they could not claim ownership or interfere with distributing GNU as free software. | Although free software had thus been an issue among hackers for years, what is now called the "free software movement" began in 1983 when Richard Stallman launched a project to build a free software operating system called [[GNU Project|GNU]]. GNU is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_acronym recursive acronym] that stands for "GNU's Not Unix". The founding goal of the project was to develop "a sufficient body of free software ... to get along without any software that is not free." Software development began on January 5, 1984, when Stallman quit his job at Massachusetts Institute of Technology so that they could not claim ownership or interfere with distributing GNU as free software. | ||
| − | In 1985, Stallman published the GNU Manifesto. Soon after, he started a non-profit corporation called the Free Software Foundation (FSF) to employ free software programmers and provide a legal infrastructure for the free software movement. The same year, Stallman invented and popularized the concept of [[Copyleft]], which was first implemented in the GNU Emacs [[General Public License]] (GPL). For the rest of the story, see [[GNU | + | In 1985, Stallman published the GNU Manifesto. Soon after, he started a non-profit corporation called the Free Software Foundation (FSF) to employ free software programmers and provide a legal infrastructure for the free software movement. The same year, Stallman invented and popularized the concept of [[Copyleft]], which was first implemented in the GNU Emacs [[General Public License]] (GPL). For the rest of the story, see [[GNU]]. |
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*Wikipedia article on Richard Stallman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman | *Wikipedia article on Richard Stallman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman | ||
| − | *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Project | + | *Wikipedia article about [[GNU]]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Project |
[[Category:People]] | [[Category:People]] | ||
