Is it time for Free software to move on?

“A remarkable continuity underlies free software, going all the
way back to Richard Stallman’s first programs for his new GNU
project. And yet within that continuity, there have been major
shifts: are we due for another such leap?

“In the beginning, RMS (Richard Matthew Stallman) was focussed
on creating a Unix-like system:

“To begin with, GNU will be a kernel plus all the utilities
needed to write and run C programs: editor, shell, C compiler,
linker, assembler, and a few other things. After this we will add a
text formatter, a YACC, an Empire game, a spreadsheet, and hundreds
of other things. We hope to supply, eventually, everything useful
that normally comes with a Unix system, and anything else useful,
including on-line and hard copy documentation.”

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