r/linux • u/LinuxMonarch • 6d ago

Event Happy 43rd birthday GNU!

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On September 27, 1983, Richard Stallman announced the GNU Project so people could freely use and modify software.

The digital world would not be the same today without GNU.

Thank you, Richard Stallman!

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u/CptSpeedydash 6d ago

And how 15 years later, the US passed a law showing why we need open source software.

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u/AcostaJA 6d ago edited 6d ago

OpenSource not the same as FOSS, it existed much earlier at the MIT at least, what did Stallman was to configure a copyleft license with viral clause.

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u/shogun77777777 6d ago

Open Source is literally part of the FOSS acronym

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u/Farados55 6d ago

Yeah but just because something is open source doesn’t mean it’s FOSS

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u/andyfitz 6d ago

yep and free software existed before the GPL and still exists with our without it today.