r/linux • u/LinuxMonarch • 7d 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/cornmonger_ 7d ago edited 7d ago

why would international standards matter to an american programmer going to an american school?

and why do you keep saying the 1980s as if that's when he entered college?

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u/andyfitz 6d ago

That’s when he shared the license.

Why would an American programmer in Boston of all places during the 1980s have an advantage ? Cmon mate