Care Quote by Dennis Ritchie

GNU, which stands for Gnu's Not Unix, is the name for the complete Unix-compatible software system which I am writing so that I can…

— Richard Stallman

Once GNU is written, everyone will be able to obtain good system software free, just like air.

— Richard Stallman

Knew New Gnu?

— C Aaron

When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our…

— Richard Stallman

“Over the past decade Stallman created a powerful editing program called Gnu-Emacs. But Gnu’s much more than just a text editor. It’s easy to…

— Clifford Stoll

There is this thing called the GPL (Gnu Public Licence), which we disagree with... nobody can ever improve the software.

— Bill Gates

I think the open software movement (and Linux in particular) is laudable.

— Kenneth P. Thompson

Many users of the GNU/Linux system will not have heard the ideas of free software. They will not be aware that we have ideas,…

— Richard Stallman

Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities.

— David Heinemeier Hansson

In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.

— Richard Stallman

The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete sense of exactly how the program works. To have that, you…

— Bill Gates

Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.

— Bill Gates