[$] Impressions from the GNU Project's 40th anniversary celebration On September 27, 1983, Richard Stallman <a href="https://www.gnu.org/gnu/initial-announcement.en.html" rel="nofollow">announced the founding of the GNU project</a>. 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 https://www.gnu.org/gnu40 in Switzerland. Your editor had the good fortune to be able to attend. https://lwn.net/Articles/945912/