Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

[Nate Duehr <nate@natetech.com>]

Matthew Krauss wrote:
> Nate Duehr wrote:
> > Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > A killer app is an application that compels one to use a certain
> > > system. On Debian lists, someone mentioned that meld, a GUI diff
> > > utility, was killer. I can't think of any I have because I moved to
> > > GNU/Linux for its said overall magnificence, instead of a particular
> > > application, and today there's isn't one utility I admire so much I'd
> > > consider such... maybe gnome-terminal, lsof, grep, top,
> > > epiphany-browser, or less. I'd mention admirance for Blender, GCC,
> > > Python but they are cross-platform. I'd mention GNOME, but it's a 100
> > > apps. So I give up and ask you, what's your killer app(s)?
> >
> > The kernel.
> >
> > Without it, I wouldn't be here.
> >
> > :-)
> >
> > Nate
> Okay, I can top that: The GPL.
>
> :-) twice.
>
> -Matthew

Nah, if there had been no GPL, Linus would have probably licensed under 
the BSD license.  (Just a guess there, since that's a fake world that 
never existed, but...)

My assertion: The kernel is more important than the license.  Code 
trumps license.  No code, no need to even use or have a license... 
whatever it is.

Nate