to provide a freely distributable replacement for
Unix. The
GNU Manifesto was published in the March 1985 issue of
Dr. Dobb's Journal but the GNU project started a year and a
to work on his freely distributable editor,
Emacs.
Emacs and the GNU
C compiler,
gcc, two tools designed
for this project, have become very popular. GNU software is
(1997-04-12)