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.

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    1 year ago

    Forty years ago, Richard Stallman announced the plan to develop the GNU operating system

    This is completely true. The GNU Project’s plan was to build an operating system in 1983, and they intended to call it GNU. The fact that they didn’t build every tool for the operating system doesn’t change their goal or the work they put into it. We have GNU Guix now, an operating system “entirely composed of free software”, so mission accomplished?