Comments by "Anony Mousse" (@anon_y_mousse) on "" video.

  1. I'm going to have to disagree that Linux wouldn't be as big a thing as it is now if not for GNU. I think the opposite is true and that if it weren't for GNU and the GPL, and of course people's aversion to the GPL, that the whole of the industry and Linux itself would have been better off. I think Linux would've become a much bigger deal, albeit with a lot more paid options, and more people would use it worldwide. It's not as if open source didn't exist before GNU, because it most certainly did, and it's not like they made it more popular, because the GPL. The only real credit that GNU deserves is in holding Linux back. Look at Android, they hated the GPL so much that they had to rewrite a lot of code which they shouldn't have needed to do, just to avoid it, and they're working on replacing Linux as their kernel instead of contributing back to it, despite the fact that the GPL isn't a factor there. What GNU has done is infect a lot of people with a mind virus and squelched not just Linux, but the software industry at large. Of course I know I'm in the minority on this thought.
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