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gcc comes to mind. Remember when every computer came with its own C compiler? LaTeX also killed proprietary mathematics typesetting.
by jjmarr 2y ago
gcc comes to mind. Remember when every computer came with its own C compiler? LaTeX also killed proprietary mathematics typesetting.
- drewmcarthur 2y agothis is what i’m thinking. HTTP itself only overtook Gopher when it was released into the public domain, to compete with Gopher’s proprietary licensing.
- jhbadger 2y agoGCC's gotten so popular that some operating systems like MacOS lie about it and make "gcc" an alias by default for their clang compiler!