> Linus is another one of those "practical side" people, who
> had created Linux without any philosophy in mind. I totally agree that
> without RMS and FSF and GNU and all the "big picture people" we would
> not be where we are today but without "the practical people" we would
> all still be hacking on a huge bunch of loosely coupled GNU utilities
> wrapped around a commercial closed source kernel, waiting for GNU Mach
> to make an appearance.
We still would have had the BSDs, I guess. So it still could have been
possible to use a completely free operating system. By the way Linux
can not be compiled without GCC, where G stands for GNU.
Bye,
Debarshi
--
After the game the king and the pawn go into the same box.
-- Italian proverb
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