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Happy 35th Birthday GNU!

posted by takyon on Friday September 28 2018, @10:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the latent-killswitch dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Happy 35th Birthday GNU!

The GNU project was officially announced on 27 September 1983 by Richard Stallman. Thirty-five years of a project that has now become the fundamental building block of everything we use and see in technology in 2018. I would not be wrong to say that there isn't a single proprietary piece of software that anyone is still using from 35 years ago – please post comments if there is something still being used.

There is only one reason for this longevity: the GNU project was built upon the premise that the code is available to anyone, anywhere with the only restriction that whatever is done to the code, it shall always be available to anyone, forever. Richard Stallman's genius in crafting the copyleft license that is the GNU General Public License is probably the best hack of the 20th century software industry.

Extra: Happy Birthday, GNU: Why I still love GNU 35 years later

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  • (Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Friday September 28 2018, @11:35AM (4 children)

    by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us (6553) on Friday September 28 2018, @11:35AM (#741279) Journal

    Confirmation....

    10 CLS
    20 PRINT "WHAT IS YOUR NAME?"
    30 INPUT B$
    40 PRINT "YOU STINK, ";B$
    50 GOTO 40

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    This sig for rent.
    Starting Score:    1  point
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  
    Total Score:   2  

  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by choose another one on Friday September 28 2018, @01:35PM

    by choose another one (515) Subscriber Badge on Friday September 28 2018, @01:35PM (#741315)

    Bugger, I'd forgotten Micro Computers for a reason, now I've just spent hours playing chuckie egg on an emulator and desperately trying to resist trying Elite...

  • (Score: 4, Funny) by DannyB on Friday September 28 2018, @02:57PM (2 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday September 28 2018, @02:57PM (#741353) Journal

    10 CLS
    20 PRINT "WHAT IS YOUR NAME?"
    30 INPUT B$
    40 PRINT "YOU STINK, ";B$
    50 GOTO 40

    60 PROFIT!

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    The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.

    • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Friday September 28 2018, @05:04PM

      by maxwell demon (1608) on Friday September 28 2018, @05:04PM (#741422) Journal

      RUN 60

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      The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.

    • (Score: 2) by EETech1 on Saturday September 29 2018, @04:01AM

      by EETech1 (957) on Saturday September 29 2018, @04:01AM (#741675)

      You're never gonna make any money that way!