![]() This chapter describes the origin and technical objectives of the GNU project that represents one of the major technical triumphs of the free software movement. We have already discussed the FSF's General Public License (GPL) in Chapter 6. They have been instrumental in its burgeoning success. The FSF and Richard Stallman initiated the free software concept, defined its terms, vigorously and boldly publicized its motivations and objectives, established and implemented the core GNU project, and led advocacy and compliance for the free software movement. Of course, ever since the mid-1980s, the other distinct stream of the movement represented by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and the GNU project had already been active. We have described its establishment in 1998 by Raymond and Perens, and Peterson's coinage of the term open source as an alternative to what was thought to be the more ideologically laden phrase free software. ![]() The Open Source Initiative represents the formalization of one stream of the free and open software movement. ![]()
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