<!--#includevirtual="/server/html5-header.html"virtual="/server/header.html" --> <!-- Parent-Version:1.861.97 --> <!-- This page is derived from /server/standards/boilerplate.html --> <title>Stephen Fry - Happy birthday to GNU - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title> <meta http-equiv="Keywords" content="GNU, FSF, Free Software Foundation, Linux, Emacs, GCC, Unix, Free Software, Operating System, GNU Kernel, HURD, GNU HURD, Hurd" /> <meta http-equiv="Description" content="Since 1983, developing the free Unix style operating system GNU, so that computer users can have the freedom to share and improve the software they use." /> <styletype="text/css">type="text/css"><!-- .inline {text-align: center; line-height: 4em; padding: 0; margin:0 !important;0; margin-bottom:1em !important;}1em} .inline li{list-style: none; display: inline; } #download li a{background-color:#1ea410; padding: 1em 3em 1em 3em;-moz-border-radius: 8px;border-radius: .5em; color: white; font-weight: bold; margin: 0.4em; text-decoration: none; width: 23%; text-align: center;} #download a:hover{background-color: #b1ef0b; color: black;}.title{font-size: 180%;}td { padding: .5em 1em; } td h3 {margin-top: .5em; } td p{padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em;} td li, td p{font-size:0.8em;} .formHelp{text-align: center; color: #666; font-size: 90%;} table{margin-bottom: 0.8em !important;} #sjf{width: 600px; margin: 0 auto 1em auto;} </style>0.87em;} --></style> <script type="text/javascript"src="http://static.fsf.org/nosvn/mwEmbed/mv_embed.js"></script>src="https://static.fsf.org/nosvn/mwEmbed/mv_embed.js"></script> <!--#include virtual="/fry/po/happy-birthday-to-gnu.translist" --> <!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" --> <h2 class="center">Freedom Fry — “Happy birthday to GNU”</h2> <p style="text-align: center; width: 600px; margin: 1em auto;"> <videosrc="http://ftp.gnu.org/video/Stephen_Fry-Happy_Birthday_GNU-hq_600px_780kbit.ogv"src="https://ftp.gnu.org/video/Stephen_Fry-Happy_Birthday_GNU-hq_600px_780kbit.ogv" style="width: 600px; height: 336px"poster="http://ftp.gnu.org/video/fry720.jpg"poster="https://ftp.gnu.org/video/fry720.jpg" controls="controls"> </video> </p> <p class="center">Mr. Stephen Fry introduces you to free software, and reminds you of a very special birthday.</p> <ul class="inline" id="download"> <li><ahref="happy-birthday-to-gnu-download.html">Downloadhref="/fry/happy-birthday-to-gnu-download.html">Download video</a></li> <li><ahref="http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html">Downloadhref="/distros/free-distros.html">Download GNU</a></li> <li><ahref="http://www.fsf.org/news/freedom-fry/">Presshref="https://www.fsf.org/news/freedom-fry/">Press release</a></li> </ul><h4 class="center"><a href="happy-birthday-to-gnu-in-your-language.html">Over<p class="center big"><strong><a href="/fry/happy-birthday-to-gnu-in-your-language.html">Over 20 translations of the film nowavailable</a></h4>available</a></strong></p> <p class="center"><ahref="happy-birthday-to-gnu-translation.html">Helphref="/fry/happy-birthday-to-gnu-translation.html">Help translate the video into your own language</a> and <ahref="happy-birthday-to-gnu-credits.html">fullhref="/fry/happy-birthday-to-gnu-credits.html">full credits</a></p> <p class="center"><small>Licensed under a <a rel="license"href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/us/">Creativehref="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/us/">Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License</a>.</small></p> <!-- Dead link as of 2018-01-26 <p class="center"><a href="http://onebigtorrent.org/torrents/3899/Happy-Birthday-to-GNU">Help share this movie by BitTorrent</a>.</p> --><div class="visualClear"></div><pclass="center"><aclass="center" style="font-weight:bold;"bold; margin: 3em 0;"><a href="#signup"><spanstyle=" padding: 5px;"style="padding: .3em;" class="highlight">Sign up for the Free Software Supporter, a monthly update on GNU and the FSF</span></a></p> <tablewidth="100%" style="height: 200;">width="100%"> <tr> <td style="width:66%; border-right: 1px solid #333;"> <h2>Get66%;"> <h3>Get involved withGNU!</h2>GNU!</h3> <p>We started the GNU Project with a specific overall goal: to create a free software operating system, the GNU System. 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