Happy Birthday GNU - Stephen Fry celebrates open source
“Why can’t the community at large alter, and improve, and share?” A good question. The online communities we build at FreshNetworks, and the best communities that we see elsewhere on the web do allow their members to do this. It’s the power of getting people together to solve a problem, discuss their shared interests or help a brand to improve.
Stephen Fry uttered these words when talking about a specific type of online community, the open source software community. This year, 2008, is the 25th anniversary of the GNU operating system, the first operating system composed entirely of free software. Fry celebrates this and discusses the benefits that you get from letting a community of people work on a problem together.
The short video below is useful if you’re interested in GNU, open source or just in online community dynamics. For us it’s required reading.
Some more reading
- Happy Birthday to GNU
- GNU celebrates 25th anniversary
- GNU Kicks Off 25th Anniversary Celebration
- Stephen Fry Appreciation Monday - Happy Birthday GNU
- Stephen Fry video birthday card to the Free Software Foundation’s GNU project
- Freedom Fry: GNU celebrates its 25th anniversary
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