GNU Manifesto
The
GNU Manifesto was written by
Richard Stallman in
1985 as an explanation and definition of the goals of the
GNU project. It is regarded by many in the
Free software movement as a fundamental philosophical source. The full text is included with GNU software such as
Emacs and the
Debian GNU/Linux distribution, and is available on the web at
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html. It was last updated in 1993.