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GNU 40th anniversary
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I think youre mixing up importance with being everything, gnu is insanely important and has had a lot of positive effects - but that doesn't make it my second wife any more than it makes it an OS. its a software foundation at the end of the day.
This even includes the linux-libre, its not all of gnu like all of gnu isn't an os, one could extend the same idea to the KDE foundation too