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OSS branding dates to around 1998, ~17yrs old. The GNU Manifesto was published in 1983, the free software movement is ~32 years old.
by cottonseed 12y ago
OSS branding dates to around 1998, ~17yrs old. The GNU Manifesto was published in 1983, the free software movement is ~32 years old.
- pingswept 12y agoTrue, but the GPL wasn't widely used until Linux took off in the mid-90's, roughly 20 years ago. So I was off by a few years, you're right. (But I'd say the idea of free/libre software certainly predates even the GNU manifesto.)
- cottonseed 12y agoWhat? When Linux was first released, the FSF had already written and released a ton of free software under the GPL, including Emacs (first release 1985), gcc (first release 1987), free versions of the unix command line utilities, etc.
- aidenn0 12y agoI used the gnu utilites before linux existed.