> On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 12:04:09AM -0800, George Bonser wrote:
> > I dunno ... Cygnus fixed up GCC enough so that it actually worked and made
> > their commercial release of it back in '91.
>
> After how many years of FSF development?
As far as I know the FSF was foundated 1986. However I can't
tell how much of developement there was before on the GCC.
> > To say that Linux would not
> > exist without FSF or GNU is balderdash.
>
> But I didn't say that. I said it would feel very different, and be
> further behind technologically.
>
> Note, for example, how various commercial Unix users often install lots
> of GNU utilities in preference to the ones supplied by the vendor.
>
> > The BSD utils probably would have been used instead.
>
> You'll notice BSD uses GCC and lots of miscellaneous GNU utilities too.
> Thus proving the bit about technological superiority :-)
And RMS never even tought about messing up config.guess to call them
linux-gnu
and he never publically requested to call them GNU/FreeBSD, which proves
the
fact that he is only trying to jump upon the most prominent of the users
of software released using the GPL which doesn't equall it to software
developed by the FSF.
Marcin
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