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by xtracto 385 days ago
Haha, you may be too young I'm sorry; it was meant to be a joke.

Back in the 90s when linux came out and started getting traction, Richard Stallman was adamant that people should call the operating system GNU/Linux , because Linux was only the kernel, but mlst of the userland utilities were the GNU software (which were planning to make a full OS like GNU/Hurd).

Some people made fun of that, and I was just kind of paying the joke.