Here’s a more important point: how far would the open source people have gotten without GCC and glibc?
Much less far than they will ever admit, in my experience.
> Like I said, honest open source advocates won’t take issue to how I framed their position.
Yet you've failed to provide even a single point of evidence to back up your claim.
> "honest open source advocates"
You've literally just made this term up. It's meaningless.
I’ve met honest open source advocates before and, once again, they would be unlikely to refute the fact that “open source” was invented in explicit contrast to “free software” to achieve corporate palatability.
The comment you are responding to was literally responding to a comment which validated this exact sentiment.
As to providing evidence, those of us who were there at the time don’t need any and those of you who weren’t ought to seek some. It’s not my job to link to the nearly infinite number of conversations where this obvious dynamic played out.