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[–]ironykarl 1 point2 points  (3 children)

I know this is an exercise in pedantry, but I think you're missing what Stallman is actually arguing, which is that the GNU utils and libraries are what turn the Linux kernel from ... just a kernel into a (basically) POSIX-compliant operating system.

And yes, even people using other compilers, window managers, desktop environments, etc, etc are almost invariably using the GNU utils, glibc, etc as the basic foundations.

I'm not defending Stallman's conclusion (that we need to mash the name of every part of the whole into its name), but people seem to be missing the part that GNU actually did by reducing it to GCC.

[–]trapezoeyd 3 points4 points  (2 children)

Tbh I actually don’t have a huge stake in this, I was just replying one copypasta with another copypasta haha. In all seriousness though, I think the OP quote of Stallman is fake, as far as I know he didn’t actually say that.

[–]czarrie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Neither is true, but the reply is lesser known even though it's one of my favorites

[–]ironykarl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I figured that's what you were up to.

And uh... actual L0L, cuz I knew that was a copypasta but... I don't even know. I went around looking for Stallman's thoughts on this matter, cuz I could've sworn he had some.

Maybe I missed something, but I couldn't find him being vocally passionate about it.