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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: 0, Troll) by VLM on Friday September 28 2018, @11:57AM (1 child)
You say that like its a problem, but we're dealing with people who care a lot more about the author of the code being a sassy black woman than they care about the code actually working or security in general or memory leaks or priv escalation attacks. In fact the NSA would love to fund it as long as it results in more useful zero-day exploits. A kernel written entirely by gay trans non-white non-asian women is a win to those people regardless if it works or not and regardless if anyone uses it or not. What matters is white males can't have associate with each other or have a "safe space".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 28 2018, @05:31PM
muh uppreshun!!! they are tryin to mahk me talk guhd!
oh noes my neo nazi friends might think i got cucked