30-09-2023 20:34 via news.slashdot.org

GNU Celebrates Its 40th Anniversary

Wednesday the Free Software Foundation celebrated "the 40th anniversary of the GNU operating system and the launch of the free software movement," with an announcement calling it "a turning point in the history of computing.
"Forty years later, GNU and free software are even more relevant. While software has become deeply ingrained into everyday life, the vast majority of users do not have full control over it... "On September 27, 1983, a computer scientist named Richard Stallman announced the p
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