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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 realDonaldTrump on Saturday September 29 2018, @04:37AM (1 child)
Everybody knows I'm very very rich. I don't have to prove it. And I don't have to prove anything to anyone. But you can look at my Financial Disclosure. And everybody can look at that one. Very strong financials.
My tax returns, I'll tell you, IRS has been a huge pain in the ass for me. Obama used IRS as his personal attack dog. And as the Democrat Party attack dog. If you were Tea Party, if you were 9-12, if you were a Patriot -- audit. Or if you criticized Obama, criticized the Dems -- audit. And as you know I was one of the very few people saying, "what about Birth Certificate? Show us the Birth Certificate!" Guy wanted to be President, unfortunately was elected President, nobody asked about his Birth Certificate! I asked, I got audited. And by the way, some liberals. Not many. They didn't agree with Obama, didn't agree with Dem Party bigwigs, they got the audit too.
And I said, I'm being audited, I'm not putting my returns out there. Tax experts throughout the Media agree that no sane person would give their tax returns during an audit. After the audit, no problem! I’m being audited now for four or five years, so I can’t release until the audit is finished, obviously. And I could tell the folks in IRS, "cancel my audit or I'll fire you." If I wanted to get impeached. Trust me, as soon as the audit’s finished, it will be released.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 30 2018, @02:30AM
Trustworthy people do not need to say "trust me" -- they actually DO what they say.
Liars, on the other hand... see: NYT [nytimes.com], Politifact [politifact.com], DailyWire [dailywire.com], Bill Moyers [billmoyers.com], BuzzFeed News [buzzfeednews.com], NY Daily News [nydailynews.com], The Washington Post [washingtonpost.com], CNN [cnn.com], The Daily Show [youtube.com], Time [time.com], Huffington Post [huffingtonpost.com], Slate Magazine [slate.com], USA Today [usatoday.com], US News and World Report [usnews.com], National Review [nationalreview.com], and Toronto Star [trumplies.us].
And don't try any of that "Fake News" crap, or are you going to claim that ALL of those publications are liars? "People in glass houses should not throw stones".
If you were trustworthy, you would have no need to say "trust me"... your honesty would be obvious from your behaviour and actions.