Why GNU?
Article by Denis Havlik published under mandrakeforum.com Quotes used by permission of Denis. This article no longer exits, due to Mndrake relabelled as Mandriva. “First part of the speech was “why did I start GNU project” info. Official RMS biography only says: Stallman graduated from Harvard in 1974 with a BA in physics. During his college years, he also worked as a staff hacker at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, learning operating system development by doing it. He wrote the first extensible Emacs text editor there in 1975. In January 1984 he resigned from MIT to start the GNU Project. Without stating the REASON why he left the MIT lab and started GNU project.” “When Richard M. Stallman started his programmers career, world of programming was much different from what it looks like today: back then, ND-agreements and shrink-wrap licenses simply didn’t exist, and sharing code was considered normal behavior. Then someone came to idea that he can make a lot of money by NOT sharing
