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The importance of GNUThe importance of GNUPosted Jul 6, 2005 19:06 UTC (Wed) by GreyWizard (subscriber, #1026)In reply to: ESR: 'We Don't Need the GPL Anymore' (O'ReillyNet) by nix Parent article: ESR: 'We Don't Need the GPL Anymore' (O'ReillyNet)
Those components and many others -- including the Linux kernel -- were and continue to be quite important to the free software movement. Those who contributed them deserve our thanks. Nevertheless each was designed to be a component and not a complete free operatings system. GNU is different. Do you blame Stallman and the Free Software Foundation for refusing to re-invent the wheel? Their focus was on creating the elements of the system that were not available in other places. Replacing free software that lacked license "purity" would have been pointless.
GNU is the connective tissue that brings the collection of free software components together in a compatible way. That's why it is more important that any particular project. That's why the operating system on my computer is most correctly called GNU, even though I tend to refer to it as GNU/Linux for practical reasons.
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