http://www.greenleft.org.au/taxonomy/term/3425/0 en http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/45532 <div class="field field-type-date field-field-publication-date"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <span class="date-display-single">Wed, 29/09/2010</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="glw-authors">By <span class="glwnews-article-location"><a href="/taxonomy/term/3423">Greg Adamson</a></span></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://www.greenleft.org.au/sites/default/files/imagecache/frontpage-lead-article/gnu.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-frontpage-lead-article imagecache-default imagecache-frontpage-lead-article_default" width="140" height="129" /> </div> </div> </div> <p><strong><em>Richard Stallman</em></strong> is something of a legend in the global software community. In 1983, he created the free software movement, through which highly trained and often highly paid professionals give their time to producing software for the public good. </p> <p>The movement produced the GNU operating system, a free alternative to proprietary software such as the Microsoft or Apple operating systems. GNU is a both a humorous “recursive acronym” standing for “GNU is Not Unix”, and a gnu (or wildebeest) is the mascot of the GNU system and GNU Project.</p> <p><a href="http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/45532" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/45532#comments 856 anti-privatisation Comment and Analysis free software GNU Greg Adamson Richard Stallman Tue, 12 Oct 2010 06:59:17 +0000 peter_b 45532 at http://www.greenleft.org.au