#gnuproject — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #gnuproject, aggregated by home.social.
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Reader Comment Response: You Don’t Have to Be Richard Stallman to Be a Free Software Advocate https://lowendbox.com/blog/reader-comment-response-you-dont-have-to-be-richard-stallman-to-be-a-free-software-advocate/ #richardstallman #Editorial&News #freesoftware #gnuproject #FOSS #fsf #gnu #gpl #rms
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The Insanity of the Richard Stallman Lifestyle and the Psychology Behind It https://lowendbox.com/blog/the-insanity-of-the-richard-stallman-lifestyle-and-the-psychology-behind-it/ #freesoftwarefoundation #richardstallman #Editorial&News #gnuproject #stallman #gnu #rms
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The Code: Story of GNU + Linux
(2001)
Complete Documentary
[Subs: ENG, ESP]#Linus #Linux #GNU #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #GNUProject
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#Nomenclature 🎯#naming pause:
In the #software environment, the #fork system call causes a running process to #split itself into two identical copies."The purpose of fork() is to create a new process, which becomes the #child process of the caller."
Taking the #code out of an app and modifying it without the original community is #forking. The #GNUProject in 1996 already used the word for a schism and not a subgroup: https://groups.google.com/g/gnu.misc.discuss/c/XXUp2GXU2co
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#dev #history #etymology #softDev #freeSoftware 👇🏾