Software practice · 1985
The GNU Manifesto
GNU Project · 1985
Richard Stallman’s 1985 call for support to write GNU, a complete Unix-compatible system that everyone may share and change.
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The English page of gnu.org, last updated on 2 November 2021: the manifesto of 1985 with the footnotes added since 1993. The introduction of the page is set under the header and its title as the title of the poster; links are set as plain text; the footnote calls [1] to [9] are set as superscript numbers; straight apostrophes are set as typographic ones; the copyright and permission notices at the foot of the page are in the footer, word for word. Nothing is left out.
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