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No, because you appear to be missing some important facts.

GCC became relevant when UNIX vendors, initially Sun, decided to sell the developer tools instead of bundling them for free.

So the 80's hipsters that had largely ignored GCC, decided to contribute to its development instead of paying UNIX vendors for their tools.

Long before Linux was even an idea.




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