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20th Anniversary of RMS's Original GNU Post

Posted by michael on from the who-gnu? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Sep 27, 2003 is the 20th anniversary of Stallman's original Usenet post describing his vision of GNU. Good time for reflecting over GNU's successes and failures, about how it has changed our world."

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  1. Great example... by ahooton · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    ...of how incredible ideas, while adding enormous value, can also be bogged down and lessened when attached to extremist views or politics.

    1. Re:Great example... by winkydink · · Score: 1, Flamebait

      How true. Also note, that he never actually succeeded in building a UNIX. It took a geeky Scandanavian grad student with much more moderate views to take that on and do it. But hey, at least he got the MacArthur Fellow grant. I'd love $50k/year for 10 years with no strings.

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      "I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey

    2. Re:Great example... by devphaeton · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      On a side note, one way to almost instantly enrage a Finn is to speak well of the Russians. Throughout it's history Finland has been treated despicably by Russia.

      You know, i never could see the point where Microsoft was claiming "USING LINUX == COMMUNISM!!"

      Thanks for clearing that up for me ;)

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  2. First Motherfuckers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Eat Shit RMS, You Smelly Hippie!

  3. Well done... by Kjella · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ...to be moderated as Informative on slashdot for telling people that Linus Thorvalds wrote Linux. Personally, I would have guessed "-1, Extremely redundant, what rock have you been living under?"

    Kjella

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  4. Re:Thanks by Illbay · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    You're making MONEY off GNU?

    RMS would have you standing in line at the guillotine, come the revolution!

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    Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
  5. Re:Thanks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Here's a nice tribute to RMS and all the work he's done with the GNU project. Definitely it's worth a visit, but please try not to exceed the Geocities bandwidth limit on the site.