GNU is responsible for GCC, glibc, GNOME, GNU GPL, and more. Without these, Linux never would have gotten off the ground. For instance without the GNU GPL's cop

GNU is responsible for GCC, glibc, GNOME, GNU GPL, and more. Without these, Linux never would have gotten off the ground. For instance without the GNU GPL's copyleft, Linux would never have become as popular as it is today. For a very long time, Linux could only compile with GCC and its only C library was glibc.