Z:gnu-www-ja-gnu-history--917c9b-The project to develop the GNU/en

The project to develop the GNU system is called the &ldquo;GNU Project&rdquo;. The GNU Project was conceived in 1983 as a way of bringing back the cooperative spirit that prevailed in the computing community in earlier days&mdash;to make cooperation possible once again by removing the obstacles to cooperation imposed by the owners of proprietary software.