Maybe you are partly right. Anyway, GNU is still here, still very strong, so much that's even what is mainly advertised (GNU bash + the usual gnu tools that you

Maybe you are partly right. Anyway, GNU is still here, still very strong, so much that's even what is mainly advertised (GNU bash + the usual gnu tools that you think of when you think about GNU bash) by Microsoft (the demo goes even beyond, but the initial advertising is about GNU tools). So was the PR so bad? Could another PR have given GNU the presence that it has today, without even compromising on ideas and values? I'm not so sure.