As noted by Dan Gillmor, today is the 20th Anniversary of the founding of GNU (Gnu’s Not Unix).

Dan pretty much sums up my thoughts on all this:

• GNU’s founder – Richard M. Stallman (RMS) – is not to everyone’s taste.
• RMS’ message – software wants to be free – is even a little hard for Linux kernel coders to take.
• Agree with RMS or not, the world would be much poorer without the benefits we’ve all reaped thanks to the founding of GNU, the start of the free/open-source software movement. Linux, Postgres, PHP, Apache…

Happy B-Day, indeed.