United States Federal Government's Digital Analytics Program (DAP): GNU/Linux Users Represent Close to 6% of Visitors This Year
Yesterday I argued that high-quality software, even entire operating systems, became "just like air" (to quote the founder of GNU/Linux, who recently turned 72).
Yes, 72. UNIX predates the birth of Linus Torvalds (28 December 1969) but not Dr. Stallman's. In my home all the software is free/libre and we would not exchange it for anything proprietary (even if offered "for free"). What we have works, and works very well.
The first occurrence of GNU/Linux was owing to my older colleague and it happened here in Manchester, not in Finland or in Portland (Oregon). That's just the real history!
How far has GNU/Linux gotten? Very far!
Published 6 days ago at ZDNet:
3 days ago Stéphane Dalbera published an article about GNU, which was mentioned by us the following day because it was reasonably good and helped show what happens when people objectively pursue understanding of history. 3 days earlier he wrote this rant about Linux, which did change the world but not without GNU, GCC, the GPL etc.
Thank you, Stéphane. How refreshing.
Sadly he only posted this in a Microsoft site (proprietary surveillance at that), but the message itself is profound. Stéphane is technically well informed. figosdev wrote a good article about it 6 years ago.
As shown above, GNU/Linux continues to grow, not just "Linux" (e.g. Android). █