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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>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 it
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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="/freesoftware/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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that makes sure we can control technology, and not technology controlling
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us," says Matthias Kirschner, FSFE's head of Public
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Awareness.</p></blockquote>
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<p>The influence of the GNU project's approach to sharing knowledge goes far
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beyond the GNU/Linux operating system, and extends beyond computer programs.
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With the power of shared knowledge, Wikipedia has fast risen to become the
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world's mainstream encyclopedia. Creative Commons licenses let artists,
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musicians and authors use their work in ways ideally suited to the digital age.
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Scientists and engineers rely on Free Software tools to cure diseases and make
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everyone's life better. A generation of young people is now coming of age for
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whom sharing 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="https://my.fsfe.org/donate">support our work</a>, and help us met the
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challenges ahead."</p></blockquote>
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