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<title>Changing the world: The GNU project turns 30</title>
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<h1>Changing the world: The GNU project turns 30</h1>
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<p newsteaser="yes">It was 30 years ago that Richard Stallman announced the <a
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href="http://gnu.org">GNU project</a>. An initiative that started with a
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programmer's frustration over a broken printer driver has changed our society.
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The idea of software that everyone can use, study, share and improve has proven
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very powerful indeed.</p>
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<blockquote><p>"Without the GNU project and the Free Software movement that
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it inspired, our everyday lives - and the Internet - would be a very different
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place right now," says Karsten Gerloff, President of the Free Software
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Foundation Europe.</p></blockquote>
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<p><a href="/about/basics/freesoftware.html">Free Software</a> puts the control
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of electronic devices where it belongs: with the people who own them. Today,
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Free Software is everywhere. It powers the Internet, our mobile phones,
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televisions, cars, routers, and electronic devices of all sorts. Free Software
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has fundamentally changed the way people create software: instead of preventing
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people to adapt the software to their own needs, they invite people to
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participate in the development. </p>
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<blockquote><p>"The GNU project has acted as the starting point of a movement
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which makes sure that we can control technology, and not technology controlling
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us," says Matthias Kirschner, FSFE's head of Public Awareness.</p></blockquote>
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<p>The GNU project's influence goes far beyond the GNU/Linux operating system,
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and beyond computer programs. With the power of shared knowledge, Wikipedia has
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fast risen to become the world's mainstream encyclopedia. Creative Commons
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licenses let artists, musicians and authors use their work in ways ideally
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suited to the digital age. Scientists and engineers rely on Free Software tools
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to share their knowledge, helping them to cure diseases and make everyone's
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life better. A generation of young people is now coming of age for whom sharing
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knowledge is simply the natural thing to do.</p>
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<blockquote><p>"We are grateful to Richard Stallman for sparking this epochal
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change, and to everyone who has worked so hard to drive Free Software's
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progress for three decades," says Gerloff. "Join our movement, <a
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href="/fellowship/join.html">support our work</a>, and help us met the
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challenges ahead."</p></blockquote>
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<tag>front-page</tag>
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<tag>gnu</tag>
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