GNU is 25 years old this year, and every Linux user on the planet should take a few minutes to eat a piece of birthday cake and give thanks. Because it's more than just software. Glyn Moody addressed one aspect of this in "The Real Reason to Celebrate GNU's Birthday":

Richard Stallman’s talk about software patents, which has just been uploaded to YouTube.

As you may have noticed, there's a bit of a virtual shindig going on in celebration of GNU's 25th birthday (including Stephen Fry's wonderfully British salute, which really, er, takes the cake....).

"Yesterday night I attended for the first time to a Richard Stallman’s conference.

I’ve taken issue with Stallman numerous times in the past (as an early example, care for a slice of cake). Stallman’s latest musings merely add to the stack of ideological positions with which I differ.

"On April/4/2008, Richard Stallman came to UAB to give a conference about GNU. You can view the WHOLE conference in Spanish at the end of this post (and some pictures as well). I strongly recommend you to view the video as it’s quite interesting..."

On September 27, 1983, Richard M. Stallman announced his intention to found the GNU project in order to build a free operating system. Now, 25 years later, the Free Software Foundation is marking the anniversary of the announcement with a month-long celebration.

"...Free Software advocates always seem to ascribe malicious intent Gate’s actions, but based on this distorted logic, Hanlon’s Razor seems apropos."

Today’s theme is birthdays (namely mine), so i threw together an extended remix of the Happy Birthday Song for all of the other programmers out there who also have a birthday today…