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We could not establish a community of freedom in the land of proprietary software where each program had its lord. We had to build a new land in cyberspace&mdash;the free software GNU operating system, which we started writing in 1984. In 1991, when GNU was almost finished, the kernel Linux written by Linus Torvalds filled the last gap; soon the free GNU/Linux system was available. Today millions of users use GNU/Linux and enjoy the benefits of freedom and community.