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#[1996]
Overview of the GNU System
#[1998]
The GNU Project (by Richard Stallman)
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A more detailed history of GNU.
#[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
It you re looking for
whole system t0 install, see
Times on January 11, 1989. One problem with the article
our list of GNUILinux distributions which are
is that it uses the
propaganda term "intellectual property"
entirely tree software.
as if that referred to
something coherent: The term is
such
confusion that
about it makes no sense.
The article is also somewhat confused in
regard to
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:
Here are tWO
postings that Stallman wrote for
bulletin board at Stanford while he was
there in
1983
They show some of his
' thinking
on the
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
Away
GNU Structure
[2020]
The Structure and Administration of the GNU Project (by Brandon Invergo and Richard
Stallman)
GNU and Linux
talking
visiting `
May;
way