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Overview of the GNU System
~[1998]
The GNU Project (by Richard Stallman)
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~[1985]
The GNU Manifesto
~[1983]
Initial Announcement of the GNU Project
[2003]
My Lisp Experiences and the Development of GNU Emacs (by Richard Stallman)
[1999]
15 Years of Free Software (by Richard Stallman)
[1999]
BYTE interview with Richard Stallman
[1989]
One Man's Fight for Free Software (by John Markoff)
An article about Richard Stallman and
the early GNU development; published at The New York Times on January 11, 1989.
One
problem with the
article is that it uses the
propaganda term "intellectual property" as if that referred to something coherent: The
tern is such
confusion that talking about it makes no sense
The article is also somewhat confused in regard
Symbolics_
What Stallman did, while still working at MIT; was to write; independently; replacement
improvements comparable to the improvements that Symbolics made in its version of the MIT Lisp Machine
System.
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Here are two postings that Stallman wrote for
bulletin board at Stanford while he was
there in
1983,
free software.
They show some of his
thinking
on the way towards
launching the development of the GNU system. They don't use
the term "free software" ; apparently he had not yet started to put those tWO words together:
[1983]
Why_ Programs Should be Shared
[1983]
Yes,_Give It Away
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