Free Software Foundation his thirty-fifth birthday. The celebration will take place in the form , which is scheduled for October 9 (from 19 to 20 hours MSK). Among the ways to celebrate the anniversary, it is also proposed to experiment with installing one of GNU/Linux, try to master GNU Emacs, switch to free analogues of proprietary programs, participate in promotion or switch to using the android app directory .
In 1985, a year after the founding of the GNU project, Richard Stallman organization . The organization was formed to protect against disreputable companies caught stealing the code and trying to sell some of the early GNU project tools developed by Stallman and his comrades. Three years later, Stallman drafted the first version of the GPL, setting the legal framework for the free software distribution model. September 17 last year Stallman post of President of the SPO Foundation and in his place two months ago was Geoffrey Knaut.
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