The text also says: â the GNU Project, which creates and distributes a software system that respects users' freedoms â
There is a slightly confusion here, and implication that isn't the intent of the GNU project, I think. Namley, "distribute a software system that respects user's freedom". I am not clear what the meaning a "software system" that "respects user's freedom" means here, how does the _operating_system_ (assuming it is already free software) respect user rights? That seems to be a technical goal, say by allowing easier ways to modify source code, writting "simpler" code that is easily understood by others, or by reducing obstacles like not needing a root user to do specific actions. We might even decide on technical solution that might not at all lead to that -- say by eskewing ways that make it easier to load third-party modules in the inevitable situation that it might lead to propietery software doing something nasty. While lofty goals worth striding for, I think they are slightly different than what the GNU project, and the GNU system are about.