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+<title>Incorrect Quotation
+- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
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+<h2>Incorrect Quotation</h2>
+
+<p>A quotation circulates on the Internet, attributed to me, but it
+wasn't written by me.</p>
+
+<p>Here's the text that is circulating. Most of it was copied from
+statements I have made, but the part italicized here is not from me.
+It makes points that are mistaken or confused.</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+<p>I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to
+as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling
+it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system <em>unto
+itself</em>, but rather <em>another free component of a fully
+functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell
+utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined
+by POSIX.</em> Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU
+system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of
+events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called
+&ldquo;Linux,&rdquo; and many of its users are not aware that it is
+basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really
+is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of
+the system they use.</p>
+
+<p>Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the
+machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is
+an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it
+can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux
+is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the
+whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the
+so-called &ldquo;Linux&rdquo; distributions are really distributions of
+GNU/Linux.</p>
+</blockquote>
+
+<p>The main error is that Linux is <em>not</em> strictly speaking part of
+the GNU system&mdash;whose kernel is GNU Hurd. The version with Linux,
+we call &ldquo;GNU/Linux.&rdquo; It is OK to call it &ldquo;GNU&rdquo;
+when you want to be really short, but it is better to call it
+&ldquo;GNU/Linux&rdquo; so as to give Torvalds some credit.</p>
+
+<p>We don't use the term &ldquo;corelibs,&rdquo; and I am not sure
+what that would mean, but GNU is much more than the specific packages
+we developed for it. I set out in 1983 to develop an operating
+system, calling it GNU, and that job required developing whichever
+important packages we could not find elsewhere.</p>
+
+<p>See <a href="/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html">Linux and GNU</a> and
+<a href="/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html">GNU/Linux FAQ</a>, plus the history
+in <a href="/gnu/thegnuproject.html">The GNU Project</a>.</p>
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+<p class="unprintable">Updated:
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