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GNU History
*[1996]
Overview of the GNU System
*[1998]
The GNU Project
(by Richard Stallman)
— A more detailed history of GNU.
*[1985]
The GNU Manifesto
*[1984]
First Hackers Conference
*[1983]
Initial Announcement
of the GNU Project
[2003]
My Lisp Experiences and the Development of GNU Emacs
(by Richard Stallman)
[1999]
15 Years of Free Software
(by Richard Stallman)
[1999]
BYTE interview with Richard Stallman
[1989]
One Man's Fight for Free Software
(by John Markoff)
— An article about Richard
Stallman and the early GNU development, published at
The
New York Times
on January 11, 1989. One problem with the
article is that it uses the propaganda term “intellectual
property” as if that referred to something coherent. The
term is such a confusion that talking about it
makes no sense
. The article
is also somewhat confused in regard to Symbolics. What Stallman
did, while still working at MIT, was to write, independently,
replacement improvements comparable to the improvements that
Symbolics made in its version of the MIT Lisp Machine
System.
[1983]
The Road to GNU
— Richard Stallman describes the experiences that
prepared him to fight for a free software world.
Here are two postings that Stallman wrote for a bulletin board at
Stanford while he was visiting there in May, 1983. They show some of
his thinking on the way towards launching the development of the GNU
system. They don't use the term “free software”;
apparently he had not yet started to put those two words together.
[1983]
Why Programs Should be Shared
[1983]
Yes, Give It Away
GNU Structure
[2020]
The Structure and Administration of the GNU Project
(by Brandon Invergo and Richard Stallman)
GNU and Linux
*[2000-2007]
What's in a Name?
(by Richard Stallman)
— Why the “Linux system” should be called GNU/Linux.
[2001-2020]
A GNU/Linux FAQ
(by Richard Stallman)
[1997-2019]
Linux and the GNU System
(by Richard Stallman)
— The relationship between GNU and Linux.
[2018]
Incorrect Quotation
(by Richard Stallman)
[2006]
GNU Users Who Have Never Heard of GNU
(by Richard Stallman)
Other GNU-related resources
GNU/Linux,
GNU/Hurd, and free software user groups
GNU elsewhere
(9965) GNU
Main-belt
asteroid
(9965)
GNU
, provisionally designated as 1992 EF
, was named
after the GNU project in
the
Minor
Planet Circular 41571
. The asteroid was discovered at Kitt Peak by
Spacewatch on the 5
th
March 1992.
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