
[From Hans] The GNU Project was launched in 1984 and Stephen Fry would like to talk to you about the importance of open software and remind you of a special birthday. "The GNU Project was launched in 1984 to develop a complete Unix-like operating system which is free software: the GNU system.
GNU's kernel wasn't finished, so GNU is used with the kernel Linux. The combination of GNU and Linux is the GNU/Linux operating system, now used by millions. (Sometimes this combination is incorrectly called Linux.)"
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