GNU Project
Free software project
GNU Project
The GNU Project ( GNOO) is a free software, mass collaboration project announced by Richard Stallman on September 27, 1983. Its goal is to provide computer users freedom and control in their use of their computers and computing devices by developing and publishing software collaboratively that grants everyone the right to freely run, copy, distribute, study, and modify it. GNU software grants these rights in its license. In order to ensure that the entire software of a computer grants its users all rights (use, share, study, modify), even the most fundamental and important parts, the operating system and all of its utility programs, need to be free software. Stallman decided to call this operating system GNU (a recursive acronym for "GNU's not Unix!"), basing its design on that of Unix, a proprietary operating system. According to its manifesto, the founding goal of the project was to build a free operating system, and if possible, "everything useful that normally comes with a Unix system...
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