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Let's not forget that he's the impractical idealist who created gcc, bison, emacs, make, the GPL. I'd bet >70% of people here work with a complete or almost-com
by matt4077 11y ago
Let's not forget that he's the impractical idealist who created gcc, bison, emacs, make, the GPL. I'd bet >70% of people here work with a complete or almost-completely free software stack. Thousands of startups were probably made possible by access to tools – not just because they couldn't afford it otherwise, but also because a large part of cs education depends on a 12-year old's ability to clone stuff on github.
- stephenr 11y ago> I'd bet >70% of people here work with a complete or almost-completely free software stack. 70% seems quite high if you mean "free" as rms does.
- icebraining 11y agoWhat are you thinking of? MIT/BSD/Apache/etc are all considered Free by rms and the FSF (even if they prefer copyleft licenses).
- stephenr 11y agoiOS, OS X, a heap of Sun/Oracle stuff, most Microsoft stuff. I didn't say floss isn't prolific, I just think it's unlikely 70% of people here depend on it (almost) entirely