most important piece of FLOSS

[Alexander Jacob Tsykin]

On Wednesday 24 May 2006 23:36, Karl Goetz wrote:
> 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

As useful as it is so far ;)

Sasha