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Open Source Era

  • continuing from Stallman 1983 Usenet post…
  • The impact of the success of the GNU Compiler Collection is hard to overstate.
  • Prior to the rise of GCC, hardware manufacturers often bundled compilers with their hardware, and these compilers tended to be proprietary and expensive.
  • GPL, The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Eric Raymond
  • marriage of gnu+linux