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Red Hat 7.2 B2 comments (rant)



I'm not trying to belittle the FSF's (and RMS' personal contribution) 
contribution to the industry. But, there are other projects that have also 
been instrumental, such as Berkeley, and even our own government that 
funded some of the projects.
K. Ari Krupnikov wrote:

> You do realize that it's not about percentage of code in a product
> that the FSF hold the copyright to. It's about the fact that today you
> can have a completely free-as-in-freedom operating system. Something
> that would have not happened without GNU, but would have without the
> Perl interpreter or the Linux kernel.

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