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		cat199 on June 16, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenMandriva, the first Clang-built Linux distribu... > given the BSD state back then you mean being persecuted by over-bearing commercial unices? (e.g. SVr4 and ATT)? lets not mis-confuse the issues to our personal ends - the argument is just as valid that without BSD UNIX, stallman would also not have a system to base a clone on.. GNU attempts to redefine the existing cultural status quo of open-source software dating from the dawn of computing to its own personal ends

pjmlp on June 17, 2019 [–]

Sure they had a system, commercial UNIXes would been kept being used.

GCC only got manpower when Sun changed the way UNIX SDK used to be given to customers.

And who knows, maybe companies would have been more willing to dedicate manpower to HURD.

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