The accusation of vendor lock-in against GNU doesn't land for me. It's hard to look at GNU Autotools and see that as coming from a project desiring world domina

The accusation of vendor lock-in against GNU doesn't land for me. It's hard to look at GNU Autotools and see that as coming from a project desiring world domination. Yes, it helped them get GNU software onto more systems, but they went out of their way to make Autotools usable for non-GNU software as well. If there's any history of GNU attempting hostile measures against their main free "competitors", the BSDs, I haven't heard it.