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So in your opinion the problem is "only" one of portability to non-gnu systems?

I thought the author also implied that GNU was technologically inferior and/or problematic. That would interest me...

Probably the ubiquitous "bloat" issue some die-hard C-heads have. But that's his prerogative, I was just pointing out that the specific context points towards portability issues.

There is quite a lot of GNU code written in C.

However, since gnu is a political umbrella project which does not necessarily value code quality, we see a lot of unnecessary complexity arising from the focus on creating working "free" software and not minding the quality much.

Anyone who ever touched GNU autotools will confirm that the bloat issue is real. No need to be a diehard C head.

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