The GNU thing
I thought the following comment from Linus was interesting. It comes from
an article he wrote at www.linuxworld.com
...
The importance of compilers was one reason I chose to license Linux under
the GNU Public License (GPL). The GPL was the license for the GCC
compiler. I think that all the other projects from the GNU group are for
Linux insignificant in comparison. GCC is the only one that I really care
about. A number of them I hate with a passion; the Emacs editor is
horrible, for example. While Linux is larger than Emacs, at least Linux
has the excuse that it needs to be.
...Linus Torvalds
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