Re: GNU/Linux Naming

[mike3]

On Dec 7, 2:06 pm, "Alfred M. Szmidt" <a...@gnu.org> wrote:
>    Hmm, so does this mean that the reason why GNU deserves credit
>    in the _name_ and not somewhere else is because GNU's contribution
>    is so significant -- they pretty much built most of the rest of the
>    system?
>
> The GNU project deserves credit not only because the GNU project wrote
> the GNU operating system, but also because they named it.  One does
> not go about calling BSD for System V, despite them being very
> similar.

I wasn't questioning that the GNU project deserved credit,
I was wondering why the credit should be *in the name* --
note that well. Why is the **name** the proper place as
opposed to somewhere else?