Comment Why I don't use the term "GNU/Linux" (Score 3, Insightful) 370
Open Source Community gets despised by RMS (and fanatics like him) for not urging the "political issues", and in the same breath they want to put their name on and take credit for something made by the Open Source Community. Further, calling it GNU/Linux will give you the impression that a Linux distribution is made out of GNU software and the Linux kernel. This is far from true. A normal Linux distribution contains the Linux kernel, plus software from a lot of different projects like, BSD, Apache, Perl, etc... and GNU. And finaly, Linux is NOT a "GNU variant". Linux was not put into the GNU operating system. Instead, some GNU software (and just as important software ogirinating from other projects) was collected and put around the Linux kernel to form a complete operation system.