Happy Birthday to GNU
Sep 3rd, 2008 | By Chris | Category: Blog, Chris, Software
Happy birthday GNU :) Thank you to all the GNU hackers that write free software, thank you for giving me so much freedom when I use my computer and thanks from my friends who I share it with :D
I’m not familiar with Stephen Fry though I enjoyed his video. Rather then repeat what others have written, I’ll just include some info below.
Check out GNU and FSF audio and video repository to learn more.
September 2, 2008 by Bradley M. Kuhn - SFLC
Twenty-five years ago this month, I had just gotten my first computer, a Commodore 64, and was learning the very basics (quite literally) of programming. Unfortunately for my education, it would be a full eight years before I’d be permitted to see any source code to a computer program that I didn’t write myself. I often look back at those eight years and consider that my most formative years of programming learning were wasted, since I was not permitted to study the programs written by the greatest minds…Read more
Mike Linksvayer, September 2nd, 2008 - Creative Commons Weblog
One of the movements and projects directly inspired by GNU is Creative Commons. We’re still learning from the free software movement. On a practical level, all servers run by Creative Commons are powered by GNU/Linux and all of the software we develop is free software.
So please join us in wishing the GNU project a happy 25th birthday by spreading a happy birthday video from comedian Stephen Fry. The video, Freedom Fry, is released under a CC Attribution-NoDerivatives license…Read more
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i follow your blog, but my english is very bad and also i cant do better comment, also have a birthday GNU .
yeah yeah I don’t fully understand GNU but I do know that Open Source dominates!
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