Happy Birtday...

Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birtday...
Message board moderation

To post messages, you must log in.

AuthorMessage
Profile crippler
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 9 Jun 08
Posts: 58
Credit: 51,097
RAC: 0
Message 804605 - Posted: 3 Sep 2008, 20:08:05 UTC
Last modified: 3 Sep 2008, 20:08:33 UTC

ID: 804605 · Report as offensive
Profile champ
Volunteer tester
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 12 Mar 03
Posts: 3642
Credit: 1,489,147
RAC: 0
Germany
Message 804636 - Posted: 3 Sep 2008, 21:54:53 UTC

Can you enlighten me, what´s the story behind this?
ID: 804636 · Report as offensive
Profile crippler
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 9 Jun 08
Posts: 58
Credit: 51,097
RAC: 0
Message 804641 - Posted: 3 Sep 2008, 22:12:00 UTC - in response to Message 804636.  
Last modified: 3 Sep 2008, 22:17:28 UTC

Can you enlighten me, what´s the story behind this?


Well, GNU is free software in simple terms...

"We maintain this free software definition to show clearly what must be true about a particular software program for it to be considered free software.

"Free software" is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of "free" as in "free speech," not as in "free beer."

Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. More precisely, it refers to four kinds of freedom, for the users of the software:"


Keep reading...

Overall Philosophy

ID: 804641 · Report as offensive
Profile Dominique
Volunteer tester
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 3 Mar 05
Posts: 1628
Credit: 74,745
RAC: 0
United States
Message 804659 - Posted: 3 Sep 2008, 23:29:23 UTC

Who's Birt and why does he have a special day?

(Available for Proofreading. Cheap rate$$$.)
ID: 804659 · Report as offensive
Profile crippler
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 9 Jun 08
Posts: 58
Credit: 51,097
RAC: 0
Message 804666 - Posted: 3 Sep 2008, 23:43:37 UTC - in response to Message 804659.  

Who's Birt and why does he have a special day?

(Available for Proofreading. Cheap rate$$$.)


It's the GNU groups 25th birthday. They are a development community for free software.

You may be more familiar with the term Linux. They make applications for the Linux kernel.
ID: 804666 · Report as offensive
Profile tullio
Volunteer tester

Send message
Joined: 9 Apr 04
Posts: 8797
Credit: 2,930,782
RAC: 1
Italy
Message 804671 - Posted: 3 Sep 2008, 23:57:08 UTC - in response to Message 804666.  
Last modified: 4 Sep 2008, 0:04:20 UTC

Who's Birt and why does he have a special day?

(Available for Proofreading. Cheap rate$$$.)


It's the GNU groups 25th birthday. They are a development community for free software.

You may be more familiar with the term Linux. They make applications for the Linux kernel.

I would like to say that the Free Software Foundation was founded by Richard Stallman, then at MIT, author of EMACS. They produced the GCC C compiler, now universally used not only in UNIX.
Tullio
ID: 804671 · Report as offensive
Profile Beethoven
Volunteer tester
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 19 Jun 06
Posts: 15274
Credit: 8,546
RAC: 0
Message 804713 - Posted: 4 Sep 2008, 2:37:50 UTC


Sounds good to me, I'm in favor of free. :]]


Happy Birthday, Gnu!!!!




ID: 804713 · Report as offensive
Profile crippler
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 9 Jun 08
Posts: 58
Credit: 51,097
RAC: 0
Message 804845 - Posted: 4 Sep 2008, 13:12:39 UTC - in response to Message 804671.  
Last modified: 4 Sep 2008, 13:23:48 UTC

Who's Birt and why does he have a special day?

(Available for Proofreading. Cheap rate$$$.)


It's the GNU groups 25th birthday. They are a development community for free software.

You may be more familiar with the term Linux. They make applications for the Linux kernel.

I would like to say that the Free Software Foundation was founded by Richard Stallman, then at MIT, author of EMACS. They produced the GCC C compiler, now universally used not only in UNIX.
Tullio


You and others should check out his personal page. It's great.
http://www.stallman.org/

For you ladies out there please read his personal ad.
http://www.stallman.org/extra/personal.html
ID: 804845 · Report as offensive

Message boards : Cafe SETI : Happy Birtday...


 
©2024 University of California
 
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.