"Yesterday was the 218th anniversary of the birth of Samuel F. B. Morse, who invented the telegraph. We present this simple exercise in his honor..."
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Richard Stallman looks back at 25 years of the GNU project
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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.
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State of Open Source Message: A New Decade For Open Source
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On February 9, 1998, I published the Open Source Definition and the public announcement of the Open Source Initiative that Eric Raymond and I were starting. This was the first time that the general public heard what Open Source was about. Friday, February 8 is the last day of Decade Zero of Open Source. Saturday, February 9 is the anniversary of Open Source and the start of Decade One. It's a computer scientist thing. We always start counting from zero :-)
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