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> Would BSD and Apache have caught on if Stallman hadn't been there? I don't know, but BSD at least predates GNU.

Would _open source_ have caught on if Stallman (and GNU) hadn't been there? That's an interesting question.

Of course it would have. It was pretty much inevitable once Internet access became wide-spread.

me thinks that is taking both the internet and open source for granted.