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CTOnews.com On September 27, 1983, computer scientist Richard Matthew Stallman announced the GNU Project (GNU's not Unix) for a Unix-like free software operating system, thereby launching the Free Software Movement.

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the GNU Project, and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) recently published an article celebrating the 40th anniversary of the movement.

Zoë Kooyman, executive director of the Free Software Foundation, said GNU is not only the most widely used operating system based on free software, but also the core of the philosophical movement guiding free software.

Zoë Kooyman also stated,"We hope that the 40th anniversary will inspire more hackers to join GNU and achieve the goal of creating, improving and sharing free software worldwide. GNU is a critique and solution to the status quo. We need it to avoid technology from controlling humanity." "

CTOnews.com quotes Wikipedia GNU as follows:

Richard Stallman's original goal was to build a completely free operating system, and he wanted computer users to be "free to use." Most people are free to learn the source code of software, free to share software with others, free to modify the behavior of software, and free to distribute modified versions of software. This idea was revealed in the GNU Manifesto published in March 1985.

On January 5, 1984, Richard Matthew Stallman officially began developing software, and in order to prevent the software from being claimed in the future and affecting the development of free software, Richard Matthew Stallman resigned from his job in the laboratory. At the time, UNIX was already a popular proprietary operating system. Unix is modular in design, so it can be implemented in blocks.

In October 1985, Richard Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation (FSF). During the 1980s and 1990s, they hired software development engineers to transcribe GNU required software.

In 1991 Linux appeared. FreeBSD was released in 1993. All GNU Project software that runs in user space can be used on Linux or FreeBSD. Many developers are turning to Linux or FreeBSD.

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