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Julia Evans Feb 15, 2025

this feels like a silly thing to say but even though i’ve been using linux since 2004 I feel like i’m learning recently that the impact of the GNU project’s software (and its design decisions) on me is even bigger than I thought

like even just the fact that (afaik) many of them used Emacs has an impact on me today

(please no “it’s GNU/Linux”)

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Amber

Feb 15, 2025

@b0rk are we talking about the cultural impact? Or are we talking about just the amount of GNU project software (even if it's not called GNU $SOFTWARE). I mean I was surprised to see that Orca is not "GNU Orca" and it's instead a part of the GNOME project https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/index.html.en

Orca Screen Reader

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Julia Evans Feb 15, 2025

@puppygirlhornypost2 i mean the software

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Amber

@b0rk fair fair. the amount of software that's either directly from the GNU project but doesn't carry the GNU name and the amount of software built upon things like glib and other gnu libraries is almost unfathomable. I don't think we'd quite be where we are without GNU (and whether that's a positive or a negative is left as an exercise to the reader)