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From: RMS@MIT-OZ@mit-eddie.UUCP (Richard Stallman)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.usoft
Subject: new UNIX implementation
Message-ID: <771@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-Sep-83 13:35:59 EDT
Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.771
Posted: Tue Sep 27 13:35:59 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 29-Sep-83 07:38:11 EDT
Organization: MIT AI Lab, Cambridge, MA
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Free Unix!
Starting this Thanksgiving I am going to write a
complete Unix-compatible software system called GNU
(for Gnu's Not Unix), and give it away free to
everyone who can use it. Contributions of time,
money, programs and equipment are greatly needed.
To begin with, GNU will be a kernel plus all the
utilities needed to write and run C programs: editor,
shell, C compiler, linker, assembler, and a few other
things. After this we will add a text formatter, a
YACC, an Empire game, a spreadsheet, and hundreds of
other things. We hope to supply, eventually,
everything useful that normally comes with a Unix
system, and anything else useful, including
on-line and hardcopy documentation.
GNU will be able to run Unix programs, but will not be
identical to Unix. We will make all improvements that
are convenient, based on our experience with other
operating systems. In particular, we plan to have
longer filenames, file version numbers, a crashproof
file system, filename completion perhaps,
terminal-independent display support, and eventually a
Lisp-based window system through which several Lisp
programs and ordinary Unix programs can share a
screen.
Both C and Lisp will be available as system
programming languages. We will have network software
based on MIT's chaosnet protocol, far superior to
UUCP. We may also have something compatible with
UUCP.
Who Am I?
I am Richard Stallman, inventor of the original
much-imitated EMACS editor, now at the Artificial
Intelligence Lab at MIT. I have worked extensively on
compilers, editors, debuggers, command interpreters,
the Incompatible Timesharing System and the Lisp
Machine operating system. I pioneered
terminal-independent display support in ITS. In
addition I have implemented one crashproof file system
and two window systems for Lisp machines.
Why I Must Write GNU
I consider that the golden rule requires that if I
like a program I must share it with other people who
like it. I cannot in good conscience sign a
nondisclosure agreement or a software license
agreement.
So that I can continue to use computers without
violating my principles, I have decided to put
together a sufficient body of free software so that I
will be able to get along without any software that is
not free.
How You Can Contribute
I am asking computer manufacturers for donations of
machines and money. I'm asking individuals for
donations of programs and work.
One computer manufacturer has already offered to
provide a machine. But we could use more. One
consequence you can expect if you donate machines is
that GNU will run on them at an early date. The
machine had better be able to operate in a residential
area, and not require sophisticated cooling or power.
Individual programmers can contribute by writing a
compatible duplicate of some Unix utility and giving
it to me. For most projects, such part-time
distributed work would be very hard to coordinate; the
independently-written parts would not work together.
But for the particular task of replacing Unix, this
problem is absent. Most interface specifications are
fixed by Unix compatibility. If each contribution
works with the rest of Unix, it will probably work
with the rest of GNU.
If I get donations of money, I may be able to hire a
few people full or part time. The salary won't be
high, but I'm looking for people for whom knowing they
are helping humanity is as important as money. I view
this as a way of enabling dedicated people to devote
their full energies to working on GNU by sparing them
the need to make a living in another way.
For more information, contact me.
Arpanet mail:
RMS@MIT-MC.ARPA
Usenet:
...!mit-eddie!RMS@OZ
...!mit-vax!RMS@OZ
US Snail:
Richard Stallman
166 Prospect St
Cambridge, MA 02139
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