2 date:
2008-
09-
02 11:
51:
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00:
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3 slug: happy-
25th-birthday-gnu
4 title: Happy
25th Birthday, GNU!
7 category: free software
10 To mark the
25th "birthday" of the
[GNU](http://gnu.org) project the
[FSF](http://www.fsf.org) have teamed up with a very special man;
[Stephen Fry](http://www.stephenfry.com).
12 I personally am a great fan of Mr. Fry -- he's an accomplished actor, terrific writer and a good documentary maker. I enjoy his books, I will happily set aside entire weekends for my fry-a-thons in which I am glued to the TV re-watching the entire set of "A bit of Fry & Laurie", "Jeeves & Wooster" or many of the other fantastic things he's done for British TV. And I make sure to never miss an episode of QI -- again, I probably re-watch all of them. I follow his blog, I listen to his podgram.. I have a lot of respect and admiration for this man, for his insight, his honesty, his no-nonsense approach, his incredible way with words and his hysterically funny ways.
14 So who better to mark the anniversary of a project for which I also have a great deal of respect -- a project which values, visions and goals are shared by the majority of our users. A project often found at the core of so many of the projects who choose to use freenode.
16 So without further ado -- Happy Birthday
[GNU](http://www.gnu.org)!
18 [![Freedom Fry](http://static.fsf.org/fsforg/img/fry720.jpg)]
(http://www.gnu.org/fry/happy-birthday-to-gnu.html)