Talking with Richard Stallman

Posted by VISITOR on Jun 12, 2005 5:33 AM EDT
TuxJournal.net; By Vincenzo Ciaglia
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What I started in 1984 was the development of the GNU operating system. All the operating systems for modern computers of the day were proprietary; users were forbidden to share them, and could not get the source code to change them. The only way to use computers in freedom was to replace those systems with a free operating system. That's what GNU was meant to do. The Free Software Foundation was started in late 1985 to raise funds for GNU development, and more generally to promote free software.

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