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And because he built actually useful things. I never worked with Solaris and the like, but it's my understanding the GNU tools were useful enough that they got

And because he built actually useful things. I never worked with Solaris and the like, but it's my understanding the GNU tools were useful enough that they got routinely installed on the commercial unixes before Linux came along. This is sadly something that seems to be getting lost. GNU tooling doesn't seem that competitive anymore, and the trend is to write newer, fancier replacements, like ripgrep for example.

VelesDude 3y ago
Absolutely, it is kind of the badge of an operating system that if it can run the GNU tool chain - it is a complete operating system. I am still 100% on board with the libre/freedom stuff but you are right, a lot of the GNU stuff is being over run by more nimble newer things. A part of that is probably in part due to the technical legacy of some of the GNU tools having code dating back to the 1970's.