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However, it only happened occasionally that someone else released some free software that was useful in GNU and when it happened, it was a coincidence, because they were not writing this software in order to have a free operating system. So when it happened, that was great, but there were lots of other pieces we had to develop. Some were developed by staff of the Free Software Foundation. The Free Software Foundation is a tax-exempt charity to promote free software which we founded in October, '85, after GNU Emacs' popularity suggested that people might actually start donating money to the GNU project.