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		Dobbs on Feb 5, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Richard Stallman's Computer Setup It actually doesn't use all of the major GNU tools it uses very few of them. GCC and the build chain is about all I can think of off the top of my head. Most of the userland is from FreeBSD. And GCC and the build chain are quickly being replaced.

jshen on Feb 5, 2012 [–]

GCC is the most significant piece. So your point is that nearly all modern software is built on top of GNU, but some only use a small portion of the GNU stuff. I think you agree with my original point ;)

rat87 on Feb 5, 2012 | [–]

Yes but NeXTSTEP could have bought created a fully closed source compiler.

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