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- Pronounced guh-nu, GNU is a computer operating system composed entirely of free software. Its founder is Richard Stallman of MIT, and was the original focus of the Free Software Foundation. It was developed as an alternative to the computer operating system Unix, and its name is the recursive acronym "GNU's Not Unix!" UNIX is a trademarked operating system with which companies and individuals must register (and pay for) in order to use. GNU was designed as a more democratic option for web developers. The founding goal of the GNU project was announced as "a sufficient body of free software...to get along without any software that is not free." It is meant to be without cost and features unrestricted access. Its basic components are the GNU Compiler Collection, the GNU Binary Utilities, the bash shell, the GNU C library, and GNU Core Utilities. Currently, the GNU Project is working on software development, awareness building, political campaigning, and sharing of its new material.
