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#[1996]
Overview of the GNU System
#[1998]
The GNU Project (by Richard Stallman)
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~Amore 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
Richard
Stallman)
[1999]
BYTE interview with Richard Stallman
[1989]
One Man's Fight for Free Software (by
John Markoff)
An article about Richard Stallman
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whole system t0 install,
see our Iist of GNUILinuX distributions wnich
and the early GNU development; published at The
are entirely free software.
New York Times on January 11, 1989. One problem
with the article is that it uses the
propaganda term
"intellectual
property" a5 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 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:
(by
talking
visiting 
May,