[$] Impressions from the GNU Project's 40th anniversary celebration

On September 27, 1983, Richard Stallman announced the
founding of the GNU project. His goal, which seemed wildly optimistic
and unattainable at the time, was to write a complete Unix-like operating
system from the beginning
and make it freely available. Exactly 40 years later, the GNU project
celebrated with a hacker meeting in
Switzerland. Your editor had the good fortune to be able to attend.