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diff --git a/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/about-gnu.html b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/about-gnu.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5718a80 --- /dev/null +++ b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/about-gnu.html @@ -0,0 +1,132 @@ +<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" --> +<!-- Parent-Version: 1.86 --> +<title>About the GNU Operating System +- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title> +<!--#include virtual="/gnu/po/about-gnu.translist" --> +<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" --> +<h2>About the GNU Operating System</h2> + +<blockquote> +<p>The name “GNU” is a recursive acronym for “GNU's Not +Unix!”; it is pronounced as <a href="/gnu/pronunciation.html"> +one syllable with a hard g</a>.</p> +</blockquote> + +<p>[<a href="/gnu/gnu.html">Other historical and general articles about +GNU.</a>]</p> + +<p>GNU was launched by Richard Stallman (rms) in 1983, as an +operating system which would be put together by people working +together for the freedom of all software users to control their +computing. rms remains the Chief GNUisance today.</p> + +<p>The primary and continuing goal of GNU is to offer a Unix-compatible +system that would be 100% <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.html">free +software</a>. Not 95% free, not 99.5%, but 100%. The name of the +system, GNU, is a recursive acronym meaning GNU's Not Unix—a way +of paying tribute to the technical ideas of Unix, while at the same time +saying that GNU is something different. Technically, GNU is like Unix. +But unlike Unix, GNU gives its users freedom.</p> + +<p><a href="/distros/free-distros.html">Completely free system +distributions</a> (“distros”) meeting this goal are +available today, many using the <a +href="http://www.fsfla.org/svnwiki/selibre/linux-libre/">Linux-libre kernel</a> (the <a +href="/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html">relationship between GNU and the Linux +kernel</a> is described more fully elsewhere). The <a +href="/software/software.html">GNU packages</a> have been designed to +work together so we could have a functioning GNU system. It has turned +out that they also serve as a common “upstream” for many +distros, so contributions to GNU packages help the free software +community as a whole. Naturally, work on GNU is ongoing, with the goal +to create a system that gives the greatest freedom to computer users. +GNU packages include user-oriented applications, utilities, tools, +libraries, even games—all the programs that an operating system +can usefully offer to its users. <a href="/help/evaluation.html">New +packages are welcome.</a> </p> + +<p>Thousands of people have joined in to make GNU the success it is +today, and there are <a href="/help/help.html">many ways to +contribute</a>, both technical and non-technical. GNU developers gather +from time to time in <a href="/ghm/ghm.html">GNU Hackers Meetings</a>, +sometimes as part of the larger free software community <a +href="http://libreplanet.org/">LibrePlanet</a> conferences.</p> + +<p>GNU has been supported in several ways by the <a +href="http://www.fsf.org/">Free Software Foundation</a>, the nonprofit +organization also founded by rms to advocate free software ideals. +Among other things, the FSF accepts copyright assignments and +disclaimers, so it can act in court on behalf of GNU programs. (To be +clear, contributing a program to GNU does <em>not</em> require +transferring copyright to the FSF. If you do assign copyright, the FSF +will enforce the GPL for the program if someone violates it; if you keep +the copyright, enforcement will be up to you.)</p> + +<p>The ultimate goal is to provide free software to do all of the +jobs computer users want to do—and thus make proprietary software +a thing of the past.</p> + +</div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above --> +<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" --> +<div id="footer"> +<div class="unprintable"> + +<p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to +<a href="mailto:gnu@gnu.org"><gnu@gnu.org></a>. +There are also <a href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a> +the FSF. Broken links and other corrections or suggestions can be sent +to <a href="mailto:webmasters@gnu.org"><webmasters@gnu.org></a>.</p> + +<p><!-- TRANSLATORS: Ignore the original text in this paragraph, + replace it with the translation of these two: + + We work hard and do our best to provide accurate, good quality + translations. 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