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Comment by ghaff

2 years ago

At least GCC. But proprietary vs. open was the common understanding.

I'm probably mistating my "never felt" earlier. At the time it was the common assumption for those on slashdot (incl me) who had heard all the soundbites but not actually read it. It was only a bit later I realised it was about contrasting styles of running floss projects.

Understandable though, by the time it came out, the battle lines had shifted from Linux vs GNU to free/open vs proprietary anyway.