Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Jan 1999 00:04:09 -0800 (PST) | From | George Bonser <> | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC] Gnumenclature was Re: IBM, was never Re: Linux Kernel |
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On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> GCC certainly wouldn't exist without RMS & GNU. Something else would, I > daresay. IMO, without GNU, Linux (the system) would feel very different > and be much further behind technologically than it is. Even if actual > GNU code is "only" 35% of the system now. IMO, the original GNU project > has been entirely successful. >
I dunno ... Cygnus fixed up GCC enough so that it actually worked and made their commercial release of it back in '91. To say that Linux would not exist without FSF or GNU is balderdash. The BSD utils probably would have been used instead.
In fact, I wonder if Linus would have even started Linux if 386BSD would have been available to him at the time.
George Bonser
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