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Re:LinuxWorld 1999, Torvalds and Stallman [video] by brandmeyer on Thursday July 25, 2019 @11:32AM (#20526247)
> No, Richard, it's 'Linux', not 'GNU/Linux'. The most important contributions that the FSF made to Linux were the creation of the GPL and the GCC compiler.

And glibc. And the coreutils, findutils, make, screen, bash, gzip, and grep. Those are just the things I used in the last 10 minutes. Other notables off the top of my head include flex, bison, guile, and emacs.

You are selling the FSF extremely short if you draw the line at GCC.

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Re:LinuxWorld 1999, Torvalds and Stallman [video] by abvr on Thursday July 25, 2019 @11:59AM (#20526477)
Yes, settle down, I did it merely to initiate some fun banter on folks here, but it looks like we are getting some valuable insights and I am interested in what people of this time have to say on this topic. This is a copypasta after all.
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