Stephen Fry Helps GNU Celebrate 25th Birthday

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 2, 2008 @01:40AM from the even-at-double-the-price dept.

Virgil Tibbs writes "The GNU operating system is turning 25 this year, and the Free Software Foundation has kicked off its month-long celebration of the anniversary by releasing 'Happy Birthday to GNU,' a short film featuring the English humorist, actor, novelist and filmmaker Stephen Fry. In the five-minute film, Fry compares the free software operating system to 'good science' and contrasts it with the 'kind of tyranny' imposed by the proprietary software produced by companies like Microsoft and Apple that it replaces. He encourages people to use free GNU/Linux distributions like gNewSense and free software generally, for freedom's sake."

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gNewSense is 25 years old??!? by pem · 2008-09-02 01:55 · Score: 0, Flamebait

That's gNews to me.
Oh, wait, it's just Stallman pretending like he did it all himself again.
has anyone noticed by Chrisq · 2008-09-02 02:07 · Score: 0, Flamebait

The striking resemblance between Stephen Fry and the Gnu logo. On the Gnu main page they have pictured him from an angle that maximises this resemblance.
Re:Most disappointing. by MythMoth · 2008-09-02 03:45 · Score: 1, Flamebait

GNU means ONLY open, which means... ogg. Get over it. The FSF would make no other choice.
Brilliant. Preaching to the converted. Very edifying... for the converted. But it's basically masturbation.

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