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Richard Stallman would be very upset if he saw this comment
by Timpy 5y ago
Richard Stallman would be very upset if he saw this comment
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agoGNU contributed, but if they didn't exist Linux would either grow its own userspace or possibly borrow from *BSD. In the meantime, Linux did what GNU for some reason couldn't... although today HURD is actually nearly usable (in a VM) and Linux doesn't need GNU components (Alpine proves that musl/busybox can cover userspace, and with clang AFAIK you can make a completely GNU-free self-hosting system), which makes the whole thing a bit funnier to reason about.