"For Five decades; For freedoms; For all users" (Original EMACS Turns 50 Next Year)
An alternative to: "Four decades; Four freedoms; For all users"
Richard Stallman began working on his own version of Emacs in 1984, i.e. 41 years ago. It would later adopt the GNU General Public License (GPL), which Stallman created. The original Emacs ("Editor Macros") turns 50 next year. Adrienne Gaye Thompson wrote about it. What matters now is not the original EMACS but GNU Emacs. Nobody uses the original anymore. To quote: "In 1990, Stallman received the Grace Murray Hopper award "[f]or pioneering work in the development of the extensible editor EMACS (Editing Macros)"."
One could argue that this was the first GNU program. Its roots (and RMS discovering it) are older than 40 years.
Linus Benedict Torvalds was only 6 when EMACS started. █