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What they found was no accident&mdash;it was the not-quite-complete GNU system. The available free software added up to a complete system because the GNU Project had been working since 1984 to make one. In the  The GNU Manifesto we set forth the goal of developing a free Unix-like system, called GNU. The  Initial Announcement of the GNU Project also outlines some of the original plans for the GNU system. By the time Linux was started, GNU was almost finished.