Happy 39th Birthday, GNU!
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On this date in 1983 Richard Stallman announced the GNU Project and with it launched the entire free software movement. Nearly 4 decades later free software has given us a lot of software to run our computers freely but we are still fighting to ensure that technology works for us, not against us. Free software remains a beacon of hope for those who value their freedom and autonomy. For today's 39th birthday I'm happy to unveil a picture of Freedo giving a cake to the gnu:
Surely free software is no piece of cake, so a large cake is due reward for this tenacious effort.
To think it all started with a pinkie.
>"but we are still fighting to ensure that technology works for us, not against us"
I'm a willing fighter, but I must admit, some days it seems like nearly the ONLY purpose of commercial technology is to enslave the world. It all seems a bit sad when looking back at the promise of GNU.
I offer technology service of distribution of free software, maybe you can do it too in your own country and help to make a comercial replacement of non-free software
Yes, I have figured out how to take out the non-free parts from some packages and re-build them as libre packages for some friends. I share them on my archive.org page: https://archive.org/details/@andyprough
I also take out the non-free stuff from the antiX distro and offer libre respins of it on the same page. I have a few friends who use these packages. I don't really promote them much though, as I simply tell most people to use Trisquel. But when someone has an old 32-bit machine that will only boot from a CD then my antiX libre respins come in handy. Or when they are on Hyperbola GNU/Linux and need an up-to-date web browser because iceweasel-uxp is over a year old, then my libre Pale Moon package comes in handy. And I've been building a libre version of the new "Epyrus" email client for Hyperbola users.
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