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American software developer Richard Stallman announced plans for the Unix-like operating system GNU, the first free software developed by the GNU Project.
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American free software activist and GNU Project founder (born 1953)
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Operating system that behaves similarly to Unix
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Free software collection
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Software licensed to be freely used, modified and distributed
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Free software project
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