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The '''GNU Project''' ({{IPAc-en|audio=En-gnu.ogg|ɡ|n|uː}} {{respell|GNOO}})<ref>{{cite web
The '''GNU Project''' ({{IPAc-en|audio=En-gnu.ogg|ɡ|n|uː}} {{respell|GNOO}})<ref>{{Cite web |title=GNU Full Form |url=https://unacademy.com/content/cbse-class-11/full-forms/gnu-full-form/ |access-date=2025-05-27 |website=Unacademy |language=en-US}}</ref> is a [[free software]], [[mass collaboration]] project announced by [[Richard Stallman]] on September 27, 1983. Its goal is to give computer users freedom and control in their use of their computers and [[Computer hardware|computing devices]] by collaboratively developing and publishing software that gives everyone the rights to freely run the software, copy and distribute it, study it, and modify it. GNU software grants these rights in [[GNU General Public License|its license]].▼
| url = https://gnu.org/
| title = What is GNU?
| work = The GNU Operating System
| date = September 4, 2009
| publisher = [[Free Software Foundation]]
| access-date = 2009-10-09
| quote = The name "GNU" is a recursive acronym for "GNU's Not Unix!"; it is pronounced ''g-noo'', as one syllable with no vowel sound between the ''g'' and the ''n''.
| archive-date = 2004-04-02
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20040402153847/http://www.gnu.org/home.hu.html
| url-status = live
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In order to ensure that the ''entire'' software of a computer grants its users all freedom rights (use, share, study, modify), even the most fundamental and important part, the [[operating system]] (including all its numerous utility programs) needed to be free software. Stallman decided to call this operating system ''[[GNU]]'' (a [[recursive acronym]] meaning "''GNU's not Unix!''"), basing its design on that of [[Unix]], a proprietary operating system.<ref name="manifesto">{{cite web
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| quote = today our focus is on the cloud and on mobile, and we are quite clearly leading GNU/Linux on both fronts}}</ref>
The project's current work includes software development, awareness building, political campaigning, and sharing of new material.
== Origins ==
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