> and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX GNU defaults to NOT being POSIX-compliant, which makes most of GNU software a PITA to bu

> and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX GNU defaults to NOT being POSIX-compliant, which makes most of GNU software a PITA to build on platforms which default to being POSIX-compliant. Also, except for emacs, GNU is a failure. gcc we use today is an egcs fork, and the Linux kernel could have worked just as well with BSD userland.