@theorytoe @0 Is that what infidels really believe?

GCC long predates Linux, with its initial release on March 22, 1987 and it's initial popularity had nothing to do with Linux - its popularity was because it was the only usable free computer of its time - all other compilers were proprietary.

In 1990, the year before Linux was even a thing, GCC supported thirteen computer architectures, was outperforming several vendor compilers and was used commercially by several companies.

GCC wasn't even the main project - that was GNU Emacs, initially released in 20 March 1985.

There are many licenses in the GPL family - the GPLv1 predates Linux and was used in a lot of software; https://www.gnu.org/licenses/

Linux partially licenses GPLv2-only, which thankfully isn't very popular - GPLv2-or-later or GPLv3-or-later is much more popular.


Even before GNU was nearing completion, long before Linux, GNU software was popular on proprietary unix's as it was far better than the garbage software supplied by the vendor.


For rms's sake, you're posting messages on the fediverse, made possible by GNU social and you have the gall to claim that such wasn't a contribution to technology?

Just to name a few, GNU r, GNU ncurses, gnupg, GNU coreutils, GIMP, glibc, GNU tar, GNU awk, GNU sed, GNU mailman, GNU parted, GtK, GNU ocrad, GNU gettext, GNU unifont, GNU octave, GRUB, ghostcript, GNU patch, diffutils, GNU ed, GNU bash, GNU Zebra, GNU heath, GNU libidn, GNU pascal, GNU apl, GNU less, GNU make, GNU binutils, gnuTLS, GNU aspell, GNU dico, GNU autoconf, gnulib, GNU grep, GNU wget, GNU bison, GNU units, GNU fontutils, GNU texinfo and readline are all GNU software that have contributed massively to technology and are widely used and are popular, due to how such software respects the users freedom, not due to Linux.

Read infidel, read; https://www.gnu.org/software/

Furthermore, all free software is built on top of the bedrock of GNU, as anywhere else is sinking sand for freedom.


Linux came much later and GNU developers were the one who allowed them to actually write it and get it usable (no, just GCC wasn't enough, they needed GNU and also a lot of other GNU software) and of course ignorant people shit all over GNU and claim it was all "Linux", because that's what the proprietary masters instruct.