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jshen on Feb 5, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: 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 [–]

Yes but NeXTSTEP could have bought created a fully closed source compiler.

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