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jshen
on Feb 5, 2012
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Richard Stallman's Computer Setup
GCC is the most significant piece. So your point is that nearly all modern software is built on top of GNU, but some only use a small portion of the GNU stuff. I think you agree with my original point ;)
rat87
on Feb 5, 2012
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Yes but NeXTSTEP could have bought created a fully closed source compiler.
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