@lanodan I haven't even heard of a claim that rms "invented" the concept of Emacs before - it's called GNU Emacs and not just Emacs for a reason.

rms was the original author of GNU Emacs and it's ridiculous to claim otherwise.

rms when talking about GNU Emacs doesn't hesitate to mention the many different versions of Emacs that existed prior.

It's pretty obvious that every nontrivial piece of software is only possible due to the work of thousands of authors, although the excellent work of a single author is often the thing that brings everything together.

>I would do is on vendor locking and effectively the EEE on Unix that GNU tried to do
What are you even on about?

rms set out to write a fully free software OS first and foremost, but made the wise decision to be compatible with an existing OS with a not too terrible, modular design - there's no "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" when the aim from the very start is to replace all proprietary OS's and not specifically Unix.

>where now you end up with a bunch of crapware
GNU software is the best software that you can possible get, simply because you can be sure it's free software, but it also happens to be usually functionally the best.

>GNU being pretty damn far from being the only libre OS vendor out there.
GNU is the ONLY non-toy, 100% free software OS.

All other non-toy OS's I've looked at are chock full of proprietary software, this includes every single BSD (oh no, coping incoming).

>I'd argue you likely have blobs on your machine
Yes, hardware is inherently proprietary, news at 11.