@linuxiac @amoroso It sidestep the fact that many or most of the GNU tools that make Linux a full operating system are derivatives or reimplememtarions of older AT&T and Berkeley tools, many formalized under POSIX. GNU was writing their own kernel (Hurd) but did not succeed nearly as thoroughly or quickly as Torvalds did. Credit is due for the work they did building a toolset but given the whole history and context it really seems like coattail riding.

It doesnt help that the zealots are irritating AF, Stallman is an unrecoverable documented creep, and the FSF has spent decades enabling and covering for him. Ad hominem maybe but it shouldn't be ignored; maybe this whole naming issue is just a distraction from decades of awfulness by the FSF.