RMS had accused of sexual assault by the defense, and his remarks about "sexual assault" has exceeded the public's moral bottom line, last week resigned as chairman of the Free Software Foundation.
26 (local time), RMS speaking on the mailing list, he said there is still the head of the GNU project , namely chief GNUisance.
GNU is a Unix-like operating system, which is a collection of programs consisting of multiple applications, system libraries, development tools and games. GNU development began in January 1984, called the GNU Project, GNU's many programs released under the GNU project, called GNU packages .
"GNU" is the name "GNU's Not Unix" is a recursive acronym.
Unix-like operating system, a program for resource allocation and management of hardware called a "core," typically used by GNU kernel is Linux, the combination is called GNU / Linux operating system. The official stressed that GNU Linux can not be called "Linux", should be called "GNU / Linux", because it is integrated into many GNU Linux program.
GNU beginning actually has its own kernel: at The Hurd , and it began to develop in 1990, even earlier than Linux.
GNU fact, is the product of the free software movement and the free software movement is initiated by the RMS, and he also serves as Founder and Chairman of the Free Software Foundation.
Free software means that users have to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software.
More precisely, the software free software gives users four basic freedoms :
- For any purpose, the freedom to run the software (freedom 0).
- There are study how the program works and adapt it to (freedom) of the software. Obtaining the software source code is a precondition for this.
- The freedom to redistribute copies so you can take your neighbor (freedom 2).
- Has released free (freedom 3) improved version of the software to the public, so that the entire community can therefore benefit. Obtaining the source code is a precondition for this.
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