most important piece of FLOSS

[Karl Goetz]

Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 11:54:10AM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
>> Hi,
>> There's someone who mentioned that 'GCC' is the most improtant piece
>> of software that was ever written. Many would argue that it's 'Linux'.
>> What do you think? Or which do you simply admire?
> 
> Without gcc, we probably wouldn't have linux. In the dim and dark days 
> of the past, you only got a C compiler if you paid more money for it. 
> gcc gave people the ability to produce their own free software without 
> investing a large amount of money.
> 
I'm going with GCC on the 2 options we have here :)
if we had no linux we would still have GNU Hurd.
kk

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Karl Goetz
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