THE LIVING ARCHIVE

From punched cards to autonomous collaborators: the ideas, people, languages and systems that taught machines to follow—and increasingly interpret—human intent.

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Tag: software-freedom

The GNU Project and the Decision to Build a Free Operating System

The GNU Project turned software freedom from a principle into a systems-building program: create a complete Unix-compatible environment that users could study, modify, share and improve.

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The Free Software Foundation and the Institutionalization of Software Freedom

The Free Software Foundation gave the free software movement legal, financial and organizational continuity, supporting GNU development while turning licensing and user freedom into durable institutional work.

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