10 Best Open Source Programs Ever
#8 GNU C Library (glibc)
Came into existence: February 1988
C programming language remains a vital language in open-source circles and to do much with C you need a good, general purpose library. The GNU C Library, commonly known as glibc, is the GNU Project's (The GNU Project is a free software, mass collaboration project, announced on 27 September 1983, by Richard Stallman at MIT) implementation of the C standard library. glibc was written by Roland McGrath, working for the Free Software Foundation (FSF) in the 1980s. By early 1988, McGrath had given what would become glibc, "a nearly complete set of ANSI C library functions." From this work would spring innumerable programs including Linux.
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