The GNU Project
As Unix became a commercial project, it fractured the developer community and resulted to confuse mass of competing standards making it more difficult to develop portable software. Other companies have entered the market place and sold different proprietary versions of Unix. Development rapidly declined and Unix System Laboratories was sold to Novell after several attempts to generate a canonical commercial version. In 1983, GNU (GNU’s Not Unix) project which strongly believed in the Hacker Ethic came about and it reawakened the cooperative spirit that had previously dominated software development. GNU Project’s goal was to develop a freely accessible Unix-operating system that would include command processors, compilers, assemblers, debuggers, interpreters, mailers, text editors and many more.
25 May 2008 editor