The GNU Project by Richard Stallman
The original version was published in the book “Open Sources”
The first software-sharing community
When I started working at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab in 1971, I became part of a software-sharing community that had existed for many years. Sharing of software was not limited to our particular community; it is as old as computers, just as sharing of recipes is as old as cooking. But we did it more than most.
Efstathios Chatzikyriakidis 