[$] Impressions from the GNU Project's 40th anniversary celebration

On September 27, 1983, Richard Stallman announced thefounding of the GNU project. His goal, which seemed wildly optimisticand unattainable at the time, was to write a complete Unix-like operatingsystem from the beginningand make it freely available. Exactly 40years later, the GNU projectcelebrated with a hacker meeting inSwitzerland. Your editor had the good fortune to be able to attend.