Let&#x27;s not forget that he&#x27;s the impractical idealist who created gcc, bison, emacs, make, the GPL. I&#x27;d bet &gt;70% of people here work with a complete or almost-completely free software stack. Thousands of startups were probably made possible by access to tools – not just because they couldn&#x27;t afford it otherwise, but also because a large part of cs education depends on a 12-year old&#x27;s ability to clone stuff on github.