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GNU Users Who Have Never Heard of GNU

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by Richard Stallman

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To learn more about this issue, you can also read +our GNU/Linux FAQ, our page on +Why GNU/Linux? +and our page on Linux and the GNU Project. +

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Most people have never heard of GNU. Even most of the people who +use the GNU system have never heard of GNU, since so many people and +companies teach them to call it “Linux”. Indeed, GNU +users often say they are “running Linux”, which is like +saying you are “driving your carburetor” or +“driving your transmission”.

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Nonetheless, those who know about GNU associate it with the ideals +of freedom of the free software movement. That association is no +accident; the motive for developing GNU was specifically to make it +possible to use a computer and have freedom.

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A person seeing the name “GNU” for the first time in +“GNU/Linux” won't immediately know what it represents, but has +come one step closer to finding out. The association between the name +GNU and our goals of freedom and social solidarity exists in the minds +of hundreds of thousands of GNU/Linux users that do know about GNU. +It exists in gnu.org and in +Wikipedia. It exists around the web; if these users search for GNU, +they will find the ideas GNU stands for.

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If they don't search, they may encounter them anyway. The +“open +source” rhetoric tends to lead people's attention away from +issues of users' freedom, but not totally; there is still discussion +of GNU and free software, and people have some chance of coming across +it. When that happens, they are more likely to pay attention to +information about GNU (such as that it's the work of a campaign for +freedom and community) if they know they are users of the GNU +system.

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Over time, calling the system “GNU/Linux” spreads +awareness of the ideals of freedom for which we developed the GNU +system. It is also useful as a reminder for people in our community +who know about these ideals, in a world where much of discussion of +free software takes a totally practical (and thus amoral) approach. +When we ask you to call the system “GNU/Linux”, we are +asking you to help in making the public aware of the free software +ideals.

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