[temac]

> If you see the letters GNU in a systems design, and that system intersects with cryptography, I can almost guarantee that it will be badly designed to an alarming degree.

The author does indeed talk about seeing the letters Gnu, not being an official part of the GNU Project.

Plus if the GNU Project never enforces its brand, that its problem (it will be associated with the potential successes of independant projects reusing the GNU brand, but then it also has to accept association with the failures)