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Stephen Fry Helps GNU Celebrate 25th Birthday

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Blackadder Back & Forth by smittyoneeach · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Fine-figured Fry
    In vanishing kilt
    Suffered no hair get by
    The gladius hilt
    Burma Shave

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  2. The Internet will be 40 years old in 2009 as well by pieterh · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, nor the Internet as such but Arpanet, thanks to this little document:

    Title: Host Software
    Author: Steve Crocker
    Installation: UCLA
    Date: 7 April 1969
    Network Working Group Request for Comment: 1

    Does anyone else think that April 7 should be some kind of world-wide special day, "Internet day"?

    Perhaps particularly relevant given that the music, movie, TV, and telecoms industries are doing their very damnedest to shut down the free Internet and install some kind of corporate filtered, locked down, pay-per-packet imitation.

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