• LeFantome
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    3 months ago

    It depends what you mean. The FSF does not provide much software directly. However, if you credit them as the authors of the GPL, without question their flagship achievement is Linux.

    The FSF did not create Linux of course. And Linux has kind of rejected the “pure” GPL license. That said, credit where credit is due in terms of not just influence but the supporting software and the license that allowed Linux to build momentum.

    The Linux Project deserves just as much recognition in reverse of course. Linux is the main reason most of us have even heard of the GPL and / or the FSF or GNU.