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No it wouldn't. There existed free software before, during, and after the advent of the GPL and the FSF that had nothing to do with Stallman's work.
by SamReidHughes 15y ago
No it wouldn't. There existed free software before, during, and after the advent of the GPL and the FSF that had nothing to do with Stallman's work.
- loup-vaillant 15y agoMust I remind you that the FSF wrote the fucking Gnu Compiler Collection? It made available a high quality compiler for free (both meanings), and used the GPL to keep it that way. It had a great impact on the expectation we now have for language implementations (namely, they should be free). Linux is traditionally build with GCC if that's count for anything. The fact is, these days, it's quite hard for Free Software to escape GCC. LLVM didn't take over the world yet. Richard Stallman may be ugly[1], old, and asocial, but he's not irrelevant. [1] You'd be surprised how much it counts. Compared to him, Linus is hot.