What was New in 1999 on the GNU Web Site

December 1999

30 December 1999: Added a research paper, The GNU Project FTP Site: A Digital Collection Supporting a Social Movement by Michelle Bejian, to our philosophy section.
19 December 1999: Updated the page about the Amazon Patent with new information.
18 December 1999: Heavily updated our list of Various Licenses and Comments About Them.
15 December 1999: Added the announcement of Miguel de Icaza receiving the second ``Free Software Foundation Award for the Advancement of Free Software'' from the Free Software Foundation.; Added links to both APE and ACS from our software page.
14 December 1999: Added Boycott Amazon! to our philosophy section.
11 December 1999: Added a link to an interview from Linux Magazine with Richard Stallman on our philosophy page.; Added both SXML and Tiny COBOL to our software page.
10 December 1999: Added GNU Cim, a compiler for the Simula language, to our Software page.; Added Hello World ! to the Humor Page.
9 December 1999: A patch release of GNU Libtool (version 1.3.4) is now available.
6 December 1999: A new release of GNU grep (version 2.4) is now available.
2 December 1999: Added even more information about the GNU CVS Repository.
1 December 1999: Updated the Coming Events page with information about Richard Stallman's talk on Tuesday, 7th Dec 1999.; Updated the GNU Development Resources page to include information on subversions.gnu.org (the new CVS server) and its CVSweb interface.; The first beta release of GNU adns, 0.6 is now available.

November 1999

27 November 1999: Added a link to World Trade Organization/GATT from our links page.
23 November 1999: Added Development, Ethical Trading, and Free Software by Danny Yee, to our philosophy page.
22 November 1999: Added MIT Photonic-Bands package to our software page.; Added the FSF award nominees page to our web-site
21 November 1999: Added Allegro to our software page.
20 November 1999: Added link to the Fun page to our home page.
17 November 1999: Added GNU Chess FAQ to our chess page.; Added Does Studying Economics Inhibit Cooperation? by Frank, et al to our Philosophy section
13 November 1999: Added Xfce and EsounD to our software page.
10 November 1999: GNU Octal is a new GNU Project to create a set of free components that work together as a digital music workstation for unix-like systems.; Issue 9 of the Brave GNU World, the monthly GNU column has been released.
9 November 1999: Mailman 1.1 is now available.
6 November 1999: Updated our Free Software Award page with a list of the nominees we have received.; Added Spanish and Russian translations of several of our philosophy pages.; Added GRASS GIS and NURBS++ to our list of software.
5 November 1999: We have created a list of ongoing free software development projects that can use more help. Please see our new Projects page for more information. If you are interested in contributing to these projects, or for lists of other free software projects needing help, please look at our writing free software page.

October 1999

31 October 1999

GNU Pth 1.2 (the GNU Portable Threads) is now available.

30 October 1999

The House of Representatives is about to vote on legislation that would grant sweeping new powers for trademark holders and undermine the rights of domain name holders, Internet users, and small businesses.

Read more in this Action Alert from Marc Rotenberg.

27 October 1999

Trueprint 5.1 is now available.

PIKT, Problem Informant/Killer Tool, version 1.7.0 is now available.

Version 1.0 of the GNU GPL is now available online.

Added Fltk to our software page.

21 October 1999

Added GNU Sauce to our software page.

19 October 1999

GNU Sather 1.2.0 is available.

A new public release of GNU adns, 0.5 ALPHA, is now available.

GNU userv 0.65.2 BETA is now released.

14 October 1999

We have created a list of GNU projects that are actively seeking more help. If you are interested in helping the GNU project, please have a look at our Help Wanted page.

11 October 1999

Added Mailman to our software page.

Phantom.Security, a computer controlled security system has been released.

Phantom.Home, a computer controlled home automation has been released.

10 October 1999

Added libxmi-1.1.1 to our software page. libxmi is a new standalone library for rasterizing 2-D vector graphics, based on the machine-independent graphics code in the X11 sample server.

9 October 1999

Volunteers needed to assist in promoting Free software at the FSF booths in Europe and the U.S. next week.

8 October 1999

Plotutils-2.3 is now available. The new version can export vector graphics files in WebCGM format.

2 October 1999

GNU Chess 5.00, a total from-the-ground-up rewrite, is now available.

Added NSBD to our software page.

Added AIDE, BTL, GeneWeb, GMT, iGMT, MAM/VRS, and Yabasic to our software page.

Added LPE and s-lang to our software page.

September 1999

29 September 1999: Added GNU Parted to our software page.
28 September 1999: Added links to Save the Web from various pages.
27 September 1999: Added Changetrack to our software page.
23 September 1999: Added information about the new <pth-users@gnu.org> support mailing list to the GNU Pth page.; Updated the Coming Events page.
19 September 1999: Put new issue of the Brave GNU World online.
16 September 1999: Added gEDA to our software section.
14 September 1999: Added Coldstore to our software section.; Added Elegant to our software section.
10 September 1999: Added pages for LilyPond to our software section.; Noted on our Java page is UDE, a combination UML Case Tool and IDE.
7 September 1999: Noted on our Java page are JBiff, a Java implementation of XBiff, and Linguist, a framework and organizational tool for Java.
6 September 1999: Noted on our Java page are Alma, an an interactive tool for the modelling source code in several languages, HtmlParser, a JavaCC grammar for parsing HTML documents, JAMS, a fully functioning SMTP mail server, NFSI, a Java-based NFS server, and WebMacro, a HTML template engine and back end servlet development framework.
4 September 1999: Updated our page with job openings; Added a Spanish translation of our main page and many other pages. Contact <webmasters@gnu.org> if you wish to help translating web pages into other languages.

August 1999

31 August 1999: Added page with GNU Art from Brendon Gleeson.; Added a page about what to do if you see a violation of the GPL.; Added a link to The Death and Rebirth of Plagiarism by Rodney Riegle to our philosophy page. (We don't entirely agree with this article--we think there is no harm in asking people to make some extra effort to write ``footnotes'' to give credit.)
27 August 1999: Added a page about the GNU Enterprise project.
23 August 1999: Added a page containing source code to some programs used to maintain the GNU webserver.
22 August 1999: Added units to our software page.; Added Sather to our software page.
14 August 1999: Added a link to the LinuxWorld interview with Richard Stallman.
12 August 1999: Released 6th issue of the Brave GNU World.; Started the "We run GNU" Initiative (caution: this page is graphics-heavy).
11 August 1999: GNU Emacs has won the award as best text editing tool in the LinuxWorld Editors' Choice Awards. The GIMP won the Graphics/Art category.
7 August 1999: Added GNU Banner to our graphics page.
4 August 1999: Added Harbour to our software page.; Added a link to Imagined Electronic Community: Representations of Virtual Community in Contemporary Business Discourse to our philosophy page.
3 August 1999: GNU Go won second place in the 1999 US Computer Go Championship at the US Go Congress in San Francisco. Details are on the GNU Go development page.

July 1999

31 July 1999: Added "U.S. Congress Threatens to Establish a New Kind of Monopoly" by Richard Stallman.
29 July 1999: Added GTKeyboard to the software page.; Updated the Coming Events page.; Added Trueprint to the software page.; Added Initial Announcement of the GNU Project.
18 July 1999: Added a Japanese translation of the GNU GRUB page.
14 July 1999: Issue #5 of the Brave GNU World has been released.
08 July 1999: Added GNU GRUB to our software page.
04 July 1999: Added webpages for the new GNU Portable Threads and added link to our software page.

June 1999

25 June 1999: Added webpages for the new GNU shtool and added link to our software page.
21 June 1999: Added Saving Europe from Software Patents to our philosophy page.
19 June 1999: Added WML to our software page.; Added w3m to our software page.
4 June 1999: Added information from the GNU Project Testimonials booklet to our GNU Testimonials page.

May 1999

30 May 1999: Added GDB to the list of online manuals.
28 May 1999: Added Xmcd to our software page.
22 May 1999: Added GNU Cgicc to our software page.; Added a page about making hyperlinks to the GNU home page to our how to help the GNU Project page.
16 May 1999: Added a a diagram showing relationship between different categories of software.
14 May 1999: Added ACE and TAO to our software page.; Added a link to The Manifesto: Piracy is Your Friend by Jaron Lanier to our philosophy page (Note that the GNU Project recommends avoiding the term piracy since it implies that sharing copies is somehow illegitimate).; Released third issue of the Brave GNU World and made its structure comply to content negotiation.; Added a Korean translation of the GNU Manifesto.; Added FarsiTeX to our software page.
12 May 1999: Added gPhoto to our software page.
8 May 1999: Added the GNU Lesser General Public License (also available as text), succeeding the GNU Library General Public License.

April 1999

30 April 1999: Added FreeS/WAN to our software page.; Added The Microsoft Antitrust Trial and Free Software article to our philosophy section.
24 April 1999: Added gas and the BFD library to the list of online manuals.
23 April 1999: Added the Free Software Job page.
18 April 1999: Added GYVE to our software page.
15 April 1999: Released second issue of the Brave GNU World, the monthly GNU column. The column is available in English, German and French.
11 April 1999: Added Maverik to our software page.
10 April 1999: Added some GNU art from John Bokma to our graphics page.; Added a link to http://www.emacs.org/ from our GNU Emacs page.
5 April 1999: Updated the definition of free software to deal with a number of additional issues.

March 1999

28 March 1999: Added a translation of the GPL into Romanian to our copyleft page.; Added CGI::WeT to our software page.; Added a link to Educational Free Software which is a new project aimed at making GNU/Linux a reasonable alternative for schools of all ages.; Added Grace to our software page.; Added bookland.py to our software page.; Added eFax to our software page.
27 March 1999: Added http://www.free-soft.org/mirrors/www.gnu.org/ as a GNU mirror.; Added Pliant to our software page.; Added http://gnu.sinica.edu.tw/ as a GNU mirror.; Added http://freedom.sarang.net/ as a GNU mirror.; Added The APSL Problems to our philosophy page.; Added a link to the Funding Association for a Free Informational Infrastructure from our links page.
20 March 1999: Added Patent Reform Is Not Enough to our philosophy section. This article was first published in the GNU's Bulletin, vol. 1 no. 13.
19 March 1999: Added GNU Prolog to our software list in the section with unfinished GNU software.
18 March 1999: Released first issue of the Brave GNU World, the monthly GNU column in English and German.
14 March 1999: Added a Finnish translation of the GPL to our page about copyleft.; Added Mozart to our software page.; Added httptunnel to our software page.; Added GnuPG to our software page.; Added a french translation of The Right to Read.
12 March 1999: Noted on our Java page is jX4, a Java-based Virtual World engine.
10 March 1999: Added a pointer to EGCS on our GCC page.
8 March 1999: Noted on our Java page are Jot, a class that does character-by-character input, a class for file locking, a class for FTP from an applet, and an applet for decoding satanic messages. All contributed by Peter van der Linden.
6 March 1999: Added a mirror in Spain to our list of mirrors.; Added the Classpath 0.0 announcement to our Classpath page.
3 March 1999: Added a note about the GNOME 1.0 release to our main page.

February 1999

28 February 1999: Added the Filters project to our software page.; Added RAT to our software page.; Added Free Film Project to our software page.; Added The GNU Project to our philosophy page. It is written by Richard Stallman and was originally published in the book "Open Sources".; Added Maverik to our software page.; Noted on our Java page are JATLite, Kiwi, Xfiles, and the Paperclips Java Servlet Server.
20 February 1999: Added Gale to our software page.; Updated our java page.; Added a list of Java software.; Added Linux-Kontor to our Java software page.; Added an unofficial Slovenian translation of the GPL to the copyleft page.
14 February 1999: Added "Why you shouldn't use the Library GPL for your next library" to our philosophy page.; Added MRTG to our software page.; Added RRD TOOL to our software page.; Added GPKCS-11 to our list of unfinished GNU projects.; Added Autogen to our software page.; Added Autochar to our software page.
13 February 1999: Added FIJI to our Java page.; Added a page about Gnumeric
11 February 1999: Added DGPS-ip to our software page.; Added the Funding Association for a Free Informational Infrastructure to our Other Sites page.
10 February 1999: Added Dr. Geo to our software page.; Added Backgammon to our software page.; Added OpenBIOS to our software page.; Added Jabber to our software page.; Added Esh to our software page.
9 February 1999: Added Aegis to our software page.; Added Cook to our software page.
7 February 1999: Added Mats Weber's Ada Components to our software page.; Added Gale to our software page.; Noted on our Java page is Mtftp version 0.6.
4 February 1999: Updated the article on the Netscape NPL to cover the actual version of that license rather than a prerelease draft. (This update was long overdue; we apologize for the delay.)

January 1999

30 January 1999: Added a link to Eldred v. Reno, which is about a lawsuit to overturn a law that extends copyright by 20 extra years, to our philosophy page.; Added a link to R from our software page.
23 January 1999: Added People, places, things and ideas to our philosophy page.; Added fastDNAml to our software page.; Added the Free Expression project to our software page.; Updated the list of tasks to work on for the GNU project web server.
22 January 1999: Added austrian mirror of the GNU webserver to our list of mirrors.; Added Flight Gear to the list of software.; Added PIKT to the list of software.
16 January 1999: Added UltraSonix to our software page.
8 January 1999: Updated the page about the Wassenaar agreement with information from Finland, Denmark and how people in the UK can help.
5 January 1999: Added link to the transcription of Richard Stallman's speech at the University of Paris in November 1998 to our philosophy page.; Added a section for unfinished GNU Software projects to our software page.; Added catdoc to our software page.; Added E to our software page.; Added Turkey mirror of the GNU webserver to our list of mirrors.

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