Re: Happy Birthday GNU!

On Sep 9, 6:24 pm, viper-2 <visio...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
For all of September, the Free Software Foundation is celebrating the
25th anniversary of the GNU Project, which galvanised the Free
Software Movement that freely gave us GNU/Hurd and GNU/Linux on which
we run EMACS, Elisp, GCL, Clisp, SBCL, CMUCL, and other Lisp packages.

Bill Clementson (another member of this group,http://bc.tech.coop/blog/index.html)
drew my attention to the film “Happy Birthday to GNU” by Stephen Fry,
which announced the anniversary:

http://www.gnu.org/fry/

I gather you can crash the party with Richard Stallman (GNU founder
and revolutionary extraordinaire) and the rest of the FSF herd here:

http://www.gnu.org/graphics/fsfsociety/party.jpg

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GNU!!

--agt

Yes, Happy Birthday to the project that promised hippy lisp machines
and didn't even deliver Unix. Fricken text editor and a bad C
compiler. Uh, nice. (Ooh, and ls in color, OMG FTW ROFL!)
.

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