Linux Kernel 7.0 Release Candidate Comes Out, Stallman Turns 73 in Three Weeks
Richard Matthew Stallman (rms) created GNU, GCC, the GPL, and lots more. Without GCC, Linux would be hard to develop. Without the GPL, Linux would be hard to popularise. Linus Torvalds candidly acknowledged this many times over the years (we preserved videos of that) and hours ago he released a 'Rusted' Linux which caused some controversies for several reasons other than Rust; the same applies to Git, which follows a similar development trajectory. The siege is perpetual; those trying to control everything - to the point of insisting on back doors - don't want reliability for everybody.
Regardless of where folks stand on Linux, GNU and Rust, we should all agree and can generally agree that this operating system (or just... system) started not in 1991 but in 1983. A lot of its design or philosophy was shaping up in the 1970s. It predates Microsoft and Apple. Proponents of GAFAM agenda have sadly paid a barrister to put false claims (non-facts) about GNU/Linux in the court records in the UK's High Court, but that's just part of a longstanding pattern. Money attempts to rewrite history and shun the real accomplishers as if they never existed or are better off forgotten. █
Image/reference: GNU project was started by Richard Stallman in 1983