An article written by Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation in 1985 explaining the purpose and philosophy of the GNU Project, which was undertaken to create a non-proprietary Unix-like operating system. To read the Manifesto, visit www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html. See GNU Project and Free Software Foundation.
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