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The GNU Project is a free software, mass collaboration project, announced on September 27, 1983, by Richard Stallman at MIT. It initiated GNU operating system development in January, 1984. The founding goal of the project was, in the words of its initial announcement, to develop "a sufficient body of free software [...] to get along without any software that is not free.

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Company TypeSoftware & Applications
Date Formed1999
Founder(s)
Richard Stallman
CEO
Richard Stallman
Website
Address

MA
United States


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