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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
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday September 28 2018, @02:34PM
While Linux will be around for a very long time, I think, Linux is showing its age.
Linux will be around for a very long time for the same reason as Java, or COBOL, or even Windows. The economic value of the code created for it is so huge that it simply won't disappear overnight. Something can have huge economic value despite its warts.
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