Re: GNU/Linux Naming

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   > 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?

Because it is the name that one uses when one is refering to GNU.