The GNU utilties, clib, gcc, all that stuff was just spinning out into the PC world. The software was being ported to everything from Amigas and Ataris with no MMU, and sometimes no hard drive, to Sun workstations. I thought it was pretty amazing - that a lot of hobbyists like me were turning our personal computers into little unix-like machines.

GNU was like this sun, and we were starting to move toward it. It was like we were sunflowers looking for sun... and then meteors being pulled by gravity.

For some people, the FSF and GNU project were more important than DOS or the Mac.