Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 30th May 2003 02:18 UTC
Talk, Rumors, X Versus Y Thursday here, a slow evening. Time for a new poll. This poll might require you to think a bit extra: it asks you to vote not for your favorite application, but which OSS application, in your opinion, has achieved high standards, performance, features and ease of use when compared to the best of breed of the closed source world. Read more for more explanation and voting.
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gcc
by Jason Gade on Fri 30th May 2003 04:33 UTC

I voted for gcc because of its dominant place in the OSS world. Without gcc, there would be nothing -- no GNU, no Linux, no open source.

I would have voted apache until I saw that gcc was on the list.