They call it GNU/Linux - thanks Sun!

> The policy of calling the whole system "GNU" does beg the question - what proportion of the
average free software-based system is actually GNU software?

That question isn't relevant to the request to call the operating system GNU. 

It deserves that name because that's what the creators of the operating system called it from
the beginning, that's what its name has been for 25 years of effort toward making that
operating system, and that's what they consistently and politely ask us all to call it.

Linus is responsible for *one* program in a free software operating system: Linux. (Two, if
you count 'git'.) Linux is a very important program, but it is *not* an operating system by
itself. GNU, plus the program Linux, *is* an operating system, and it deserves to be called by
the name its creators want us to call it.

Calling it GNU/Linux acknowledges the fact that Linux is a very important part of the
operating system, but it is still *one* program. No single program deserves the title of
"operating system". The fact that it's an operating system at all, with thousands of parts
crteated by many people but all managing to work together well, is because of the consistent
efforts of the people creating GNU as an operating system.