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Forty Years of Commitment to Software Freedom

posted by hubie on Tuesday September 30, @02:39PM   Printer-friendly
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canopic jug writes:

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) turns forty on October 4, 2025. The Free Software Foundation will have then been defending the rights of all software users for the past 40 years. The long term goal is for all users have the freedom to run, edit, contribute to, and share software.

There will be an online event, with an in-person option for those that can get to Boston. In November there will also be a hackathon.

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by turgid on Tuesday September 30, @08:55PM

    by turgid (4318) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday September 30, @08:55PM (#1419117) Journal

    I think for me the first significant piece of GNU code I used was DJGPP, the port of gcc to MS-DOS. It was truly awesome for the time. It was 32-bit and came with a DOS extender.

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