[Gllug] The importance of the PC to free software (was Barbican website...)

[Gordon Joly]

At 3:22 +0000 2002-11-13, Anthony Chapman wrote:
>From: Mike Brodbelt <mike at coruscant.demon.co.uk>
>Date: 12 Nov 2002 21:01:26 +0000
>
>>  And the Linux kernel was probably responsible for getting more
>>  developers into free software than any other single thing.
>
>Even without Linux there'd still be *BSD, but I can't think of a 
>replacement for GCC.

I would assert that GNU (the tools, such "gcc", "bison", "gas", and 
the rest:-) as well as Linux (the kernel) played a part!

I know that I started out submitting error reports about GNU "ld" and 
"libg++" for Sun0S 4.x (or earlier?) rather than Linux.

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El Gordo

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