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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