When people talk only about which specific programs come from the GNU Project, that's a basic misunderstanding of what we produced. Many people and groups developed programs that are in the GNU/Linux system today. Most of them did their work because they wanted to write a program to do X, Y or Z. So when we judge their contributions, we naturally look at what programs they developed, and what those programs are useful for. The GNU Project alone among these contributors had a higher-order goal: to make a whole free operating system. To do this, we had to write lots of programs. But unlike the other contributors, we were not *just* writing programs. They were steps in developing an operating system--essentially the system that most people call "Linux". Calling the operating system "Linux" gives the impression that the GNU Project was *just* about writing a bunch programs, and that suggests one should judge our work in terms of *just* the individual programs. That's missing the forest for the trees. (It still comes out that we planted more of the trees than anyone else did.)
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