Chad wrote: > As for GNU, Linux makes use of GNU tools the compiler and various other
utilities and FSF ideas. But much of the OSS software (Kde, Gnome, OO.org, TheGimp) seems to have been developed firstly for Linux rather than GNU and should linux not have existed I'd doubt much of that software would. Linux would still no doubt exist with out GNU (after all there are other compilers and tool chains and any one can produce develop a licence (eg GPL theres enough of them after all and some are older than GPL)) but would GNU still exist or at least be as mainstream if it wasn't for Linux?
You are quite wrong about all that.
GNU and the FSF was already well established before Linus Torvalds started university.
GNU etc is what started Linux *not* the other way 'round. Without GNU (unarguably) and (arguably) the GPL, Linux would not be what it is today.
There is no doubt that GNU has been absolutely vital to Linux. This is not an opinion but a fact :-)
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