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More or less the entire web?

• Retric 16y ago
  Plenty of people use open source software, but when it comes to writing drivers for the next generation of GPU or the Ignition Timing software for the 2012 Honda civic the Open Source revolution has more or less fallen flat.
  • michaelchisari 16y ago
    Are you sure that either of those aren't compiled or linked using GNU tools?
    • Retric 16y ago
      Are you sure being GNU matters for such users?
      • r00fus 16y ago
        Sure, in that if GNU tools didn't exist, some software would not exist, and others would be prohibitively expensive. GNU has impacted users lives.
        • Retric 16y ago
          You could get fairly high quality IDE's at low cost ex:Borland Pascal long before GNU became an issue.
      • huherto 16y ago
        Before GNU Linux, only corporation had access to Unix systems like HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, etc.
        • Retric 16y ago
          The history of UNIX was a little more complex than that. The average consumer could not afford a ex: a PDP-11 but there where relatively low cost systems available around the same time as GNU Linux showed up. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Unix_history-simple.png http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Unix_history-simple.png PS: Ok, I get that people feel the need to down vote when they have an emotional reaction, but how was that anything but a truthful statement?