GNU Project comes out against Nice

national | miscellaneous | news report Thursday October 17, 2002 12:05 by Andrew

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Citizens of Ireland: we urge you to vote against the Nice Treaty. The treaty would allow a majority of EU governments to approve trade treaties for all EU countries, bypassing any other democratic controls. This specifically includestreaties on copyright and patents, that could restrict or prohibit development of software. Please spread the word.

The GNU Project was launched in 1984 to develop a complete Unix-like operating system which is free software: the GNU system. (GNU is a recursive acronym for ``GNU's Not Unix''; it is pronounced "guh-NEW".) Variants of the GNU operating system, which use the kernel Linux, are now widely used; though these systems are often referred to as ``Linux'', they are more accurately called GNU/Linux systems.