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On September 27, 1983, Richard Stallman announced the
founding of the GNU project. His goal, which seemed wildly optimistic
and unattainable at the time, was to write a complete Unix-like operating
system from the beginning
and make it freely available. Exactly 40 years later, the GNU project
celebrated with a hacker meeting in
Switzerland. Your editor had the good fortune to be able to attend.