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The aim of this report is to outline what exactly are GNU and the free software foundation.
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OPERATING SYSTEMS ASSIGNMENT INTRODUCTION The aim of this report is to outline what exactly are GNU and the free software foundation. All research has been carried out on the Internet. The topics that will help me discuss these subjects are: o What are GNU and the Free Software Foundation (FSF)? o Brief history of GNU and the Free Software Foundation. o Advantages and Disadvantages of using GNU. o How can you contribute? GNU AND THE FSF The GNU Project was launched in 1984 to develop an operating system that is similar to UNIX, but this would be free software. GNU was created so that users can have the freedom to share and improve the software they use on their computers. GNU is a recursive acronym for 'GNU's Not Unix', it is pronounced "guh-new". The goal of the GNU system was to give users freedom, so terms of distribution were used to prevent the GNU software from being...
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