About the GNU Operating System

An overview of GNU
A more detailed history of GNU
The initial announcement of the project
The GNU Manifesto
BYTE interview with Richard Stallman (1986)
My Lisp Experiences and the Development of GNU Emacs (by Richard Stallman)
One Man's Fight for Free Software, an article about Richard Stallman and the early GNU development, published at The New York Times on January 11, 1989. One problem with the article is that it uses the propaganda term “intellectual property” as if that referred to something coherent. The term is such a confusion that talking about it makes no sense. The article is also somewhat confused in regard to Symbolics. What Stallman did, while still working at MIT, was to write, independently, replacement improvements comparable to the improvements that Symbolics made in its version of the MIT Lisp Machine System.

GNU and Linux