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Re:GNU Users Who Have Never Heard of GNU (2006) by xxpor on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @10:39PM (#22755773)
That's funny, I have a machine over here that's running Debian with musl and busybox.

I think people are way too worried about who gets credit. If rms wanted the recognition that bad, he should have finished Hurd. Also, who started say XFree86 or X.org? I have no idea. But their software is probably a lot more important to a lot of users than gcc or even glibc is.

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Re:GNU Users Who Have Never Heard of GNU (2006) by Fice on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @11:13PM (#22755919)
My comment was not about giving credit. The point is that if you know that the system is GNU, you know what software it is supposed to run, and that does not mean that it can not be compatible if it is not GNU. We can probably also use POSIX (btw, the name for the standard was suggested by RMS [1]) as the lowest common denominator, but would that also include Android?

[1] https://stallman.org/articles/posix.html

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