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“Happy Birthday to GNU”

Thank you to Stephen Fry for his participation in this film.

Image credits

‘IBM PC’ by Marcin Wichary — CC-BY

‘Computer Museum’ by Michael Coté — CC-BY

‘New bathroom project’ by Morten Skogly — CC-BY

‘GNU’ by Jochen Stärk — CC-BY

Music — Song for Emma by furny (Lee/Cousens) http://furny.co.uk

Thank GNUs

For their contributions to GNU over the last 25 years, we thank…

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…and of course, Richard Stallman, and the millions of GNU users and contributors.

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Production credits

“Happy Birthday To GNU…”

Written by Matt Lee

Executive Producer — Matt Lee

Producer — Andrew Sampson

Copyright © 2008 Free Software Foundation Inc

Production by The Sampsonian Company

Released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 License.

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