@yomiel @sam @sneeden @waifu Linux wouldn't have even been *possible* without GNU.

If you don't have a free compiler, you cannot write a good kernel, or maybe even any kernel.

If you don't allow for a free editor, you cannot write a good kernel, or maybe even any kernel.

If you don't have a free make implementation, you cannot automate the kernel build process well.

If you don't have a free toolchain, binutils and libc and many other libraries, nobody can use such kernel.


Linux was originally released under a proprietary source-available license, although Linus didn't get very far, as why would GNU do most of the work for him?

Linux only started to succeed once it was re-licensed to the GPLv2-ambigious and GNU developers ported GNU to work with it, resulting in GNU/Linux.