The GNU project developed some of the 21st century's most important software. The GNU Compiler Collection is used on Linux systems, BSD/OSX systems, and on Windows. GNAT has, for the most part, replaced any other Ada compiler ever created. The list could go on, but you get the idea. The sad thing about GNU is that it is so ideologically bent that I can no longer support it.
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spanky
13 years 36 weeks 3 days 12 hours ago
Ideologically bent?
Who even uses such a phrase? Some old, evil man might I guess.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html
benasselstine
13 years 36 weeks 7 hours 8 min ago
ideologically bent is right
I support GNU precisely because it's ideologically bent. I don't think the term is negative; it depends on the ideology. We both agree with the ideology of software freedom, and any software that is GPL'd is "ideologically bent", not just GNU.