GNU Project is 20 Today!

Posted on January 5, 2004 by Michael Froomkin

The GNU (“GNU's not Unix”) Project turns 20 today. (The Initial Announcement – GNU Project is actually a few weeks older than that).

Call it what you will, Richard Stallman, and GNU and the copyleft idea, are important to our long-run wealth and freedom (as in 'freedom of choice' and 'freedom of action' at least and, it increasingly appears, also as in 'liberty'). Read all about it.

Update: Here are Richard Stallman's thoughts on the occasion.

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