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 | | The UNIX architecture allowed GNU to be written as individual software components: components that were already freely available, such as the TeX typesetting system and the X Window graphics system, could be adapted and reused; others would be written from scratch. |
 | | To ensure that GNU software would remain free for all users "to run, copy, modify and distribute," the project would release it under a license designed to give everyone those permissions while preventing them from adding restrictions of their own. |
 | | In the GNU Manifesto, Stallman had mentioned that "an initial kernel exists but many more features are needed to emulate Unix." He was referring to TRIX, a remote procedure call kernel developed at MIT, whose authors had decided to distribute for free, and was compatible with UNIX version 7. |
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