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== Background == Some parts of the ''GNU Manifesto'' began as an announcement of the GNU Project posted by Richard Stallman on September 27, 1983, in form of an email on [[Usenet newsgroup]]s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gnu.org/gnu/initial-announcement.en.html|title=Initial announcement of the GNU Project|last=Stallman|first=Richard|website=www.gnu.org|language=en|access-date=2019-02-07}}</ref> The project's aim was to give computer users freedom and control over their computers by collaboratively developing and providing software that is based on Stallman's idea of [[The Free Software Definition|software freedom]] (although the written definition had not existed until February 1986).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gnu.org/bulletins/bull1.txt|title=GNU's Bulletin, Volume 1 Number 1|last=Stallman|first=Richard M.|date=February 1986|website=Gnu.org|page=8|access-date=2019-02-08}}</ref> The manifesto was written as a way to familiarize more people with these concepts, and to find more support in form of work, money, programs and hardware. The ''GNU Manifesto'' possessed its name and full written form in 1985 but was updated in minor ways in 1987.<ref name="GNU Manifesto" />
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