Re: [OT] GNU - Linux and Debian.......

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>]

Neal Hogan wrote:
> > And thanks for reminding us of the essential role of gcc, glibc, and
> > binutils.  I'm too new to GNU/linux to remember.. but would anything
> > have been possible without them?
> >     
>
> yes
>   
well sure, if you were working on ITS or some other research operating 
system, otherwise, the price of commercial compilers and libc (say from 
Sun) were pretty high, and you ran into licensing issues re. libc


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