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 <h2>Incorrect Quotation</h2>
 
 <address class="byline">by Richard Stallman</address>
 
 <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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