GNU’s 25th Anniversary
That’s right, this month of September GNU celebrates 25 years of existence, for those who don’t know what it’s about: it’s about software freedom in the computers world, a world in wich you can obtain the source code of all GNU applications and their operating system gNewSense and modify it, make as many copies of it as you like(no serial key or any other system of copy control) with the condition of providing/sharing the modifications to the open source community, please take a look at their website http://www.gnu.org/ for more information, you can watch a very cool presentation by Mr. Stephen Fry as he explains very well what free software is.
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And again Happy Birthday GNU
