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to the idea of
intellectual property and software.
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He eventually acted this out
by founding the Free Software Foundation.
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So, I looked for another alternative
and I realized:
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I was an operating system developer.
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If I were to develop another operating system.
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And then as the author,
encourage everyone to share it.
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Say, everyone, " You come and get it,
use this, form a new community"
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Not only could I gave myself a way
to keep using computers without
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betraying other people,
but I'd give it to everybody else, too.
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Everybody would have a
way out of that moral dilemma
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And so I realized this was
what I had to do with my life.
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I actually began the project in January of 1984.
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That's when I resigned for my job at MIT
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to start developing the GNU operating system.
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Now I should explain the name GNU is a hack.
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Because it's a recursive acronym.
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It stands for "GNU's Not Unix".
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You see so the "G" in "GNU" stands for "GNU".
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And what the name means is
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I was developing a system that was like
the Unix operating system,
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but was not the Unix operating system.
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This was a different system.
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We would have to write it completely
from scratch
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because Unix was proprietory.
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We were forbidden to share Unix,
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We couldn't use Unix.
It was useless for a community.
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So we had to write a replacement for it.
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Throughout the 1980s,
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as Richard Stallman was building the GNU project,
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computer scientists from
the University of California at Berkeley