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"making your source open is a good idea".
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When Linus developed the kernel
he wasn't doing it for the GNU project.
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He did it independently.
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And he released it independently
and we didn't know about it.
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But some of the people who did know about it
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decided to look for what else they could find
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to put together with that kernel to
make a whole system.
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They looked around, and lo and behold
everything they needed was already available.
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They looked around, and lo and behold
everything they needed was already available.
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"What good fortune!" they thought.
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But actually there was no chance about it.
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They had found all the pieces of the
GNU system which was missing just the kernel,
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so when they put all that together
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really they were fitting
Linux into the gap in the GNU system.
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But they didn't know that.
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There's a lot of these programs
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um, done by the Free Softwares Foundation,
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and done by other people like Linux.
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And there's a symbiosis between
Linux and the programs
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that the programs run on Linux and at the same time
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and they take the advantage of Linux as a platform,
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while Linux takes the advantage of the programs
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by just being able to use them.
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[ What...What programs? ]
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umm...
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The main one is actually the GNU C Compiler.
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Which... Without a C compiler
it would not have been possible
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to make Linux or most of the open progress available.
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Linux uses the GPL,
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and I agree with a kind of philosophy behind the GPL.
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That said the GPL itself is not a very pretty document