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by R. M. Stallman on Thursday April 29, 2004 @07:05PM (#9013700) Attached to: Advanced Unix Programming, 2nd Ed.

Firstly I feel I must correct the author on his error in referring to an operating system using the Linux kernel as Linux, instead of GNU/Linux. For the reasoning behing this see here.

Secondly I note that accompanying any book on programming there should be a book on Free Software to educate the programmers of the future as to the importance of Free Software and the evils of supporting proprietary software.

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Richard Stallman is the founder of the GNU project [gnu.org], launched in 1984 to develop the free operating system GNU (an acronym for "GNU's Not Unix"), and thereby give computer users the freedom that most of them have lost. GNU is free software [gnu.org]: everyone is free to copy it and redistribute it, as well as to make changes either large or small.

Today, Linux-based variants of the GNU system, based on the kernel Linux developed by Linus Torvalds, are in widespread use. There are estimated to be over 10 million users of GNU/Linux systems today.

Richard Stallman is the principal author of the GNU C Compiler, a portable optimizing compiler which was designed to support diverse architectures and multiple languages. The compiler now supports over 30 different architectures and 7 programming languages.

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