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Comment by donnachangstein

> or around 5 years after Stallman started the GNU project.

So 5 years after he started with an empty repo and some political ramblings?

GNU did not have a working system until Linus released Linux in 1992. They had pieces and components which were worthless on their own.

There is a lot of deliberate ignorance of public domain code being posted on BBSes at the time. I'm not discounting anything Richard did but let's not rewrite history here.

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