The
GNU Manifesto was written by
Richard Stallman
in
1985 as an explanation and definition of the goals of
the
GNU project. Although last updated in 1993, it is
regarded by many in the
Free software movement as a
fundamental philosophical source. The full text is included
with GNU software such as
Emacs and the
Debian GNU/Linux
distribution, and is available on the web at
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html (
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html).