Z:gnu-www-ja-byte-interview--dea0cd-Other people may use the GNU s/en

Other people may use the GNU system simply because it is technically superior. For example, my C compiler is producing about as good a code as I have seen from any C compiler. And GNU EMACS is generally regarded as being far superior to the commercial competition. And GNU EMACS was not funded by anyone either, but everyone is using it. I therefore think that many people will use the rest of the GNU system because of its technical advantages. But I would be doing a GNU system even if I didn't know how to make it technically better because I want it to be socially better. The GNU project is really a social project. It uses technical means to make a change in society.