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by gjsman-1000 683 days ago
So should we call it Linux/Torvalds? Linux/Torvalds/Stallman?

Heck, if Earth didn’t exist, Linux wouldn’t have happened, so Linux/Earth/Sun/Biology/Torvalds/Stallman/SystemD/Mesa/PulseAudio/Wayland…

GNU nowadays is a tiny part of the desktop. There’s also projects slowly moving to rewrite it in Rust and a more permissive license, other parts are losing importance like GCC losing to Clang, so its relevance is dying over time. Just like the FSF.