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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?