Almost missed the news that last week was the 60th anniversary of the publication of George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. And even though it seems that Huxley is winning the ideological pole position (check out the Neil Postman cartoon), aall birthdays are doubleplusgood.
You can read the full text of 1984 here.
This month GNU is celebrating its 25th birthday and among the well wishers is Stephen Fry who helped make the video Happy Birthday to GNU.
My first thought was that this was just a gimmick but after watching the video I realized that it was a really good introduction to Free Software and actually a sincere appreciation of the amazing task Richard and thousands of others has carried out. It’s well worth watching.