alt Hacker News> Unix-philosophy small tools that constitute an important part of the GNU project
The statement you chose makes a carve-out for Unix, not GNU. It doesn't support "not really."
> Unix-philosophy small tools that constitute an important part of the GNU project
The statement you chose makes a carve-out for Unix, not GNU. It doesn't support "not really."
What I'm saying "not really" to is the claim that the "cathedral" does only refer to the GNU project and not to proprietary closed source. This is not the case. It refers to certain portions of GNU, as well as to certain segments of proprietary closed source. Neither GNU nor proprietary closed source is a criterion for the "cathedral". The criterion is the size and complexity of the software, independent of whether it is proprietary or not, or closed source or not.
GNU follows the Unix philosophy. ESR wrote The Art of Unix Programming [0] in which he writes extensively about it. GNU was envisioned to be a clone of Unix [1].
[0] http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/
[1] http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/apa.html