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What app is so useful, you can’t believe it’s free? (lemm.ee)
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[–] Ess@infosec.pub 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

GNU!

Just had to give a shout out to Stallman & GNU. I've seen a lot of mentions of thanks to Linux on here, but Richard will never let us forget that Linux ain't shit w/o GNU software to interact with it.

Just think of the number of GNU programs you've used, just in a typical day on the terminal.

My hat is off to you, Richard.

[–] meteorswarm@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's really a shame Stallman and many of the other free software pioneers are absolutely creeps to women.

[–] i_lost_my_bagel@seriously.iamincredibly.gay 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah I respect the all the important work he's done but I hate him for how shit of a human he is

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of GNU software has some other FOSS equivalent that it can be replaced with. GCC, however, was basically the only production-worthy FOSS C/C++ compiler for a long time, until Clang came along.

[–] urgenthexagon@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

GNU was the very first free Unix reimplementation project. Without it, maybe only excessively expensive commercial Unix systems would be available alongside Windows. Although 386BSD was also an early effort, the intense FUD campaign prevented it from being used for more serious purposes. At the time, GNU/Linux played a crucial role in competing against commercial Unix systems.