呣，關於這個的討論已經持續很久了，非常感谢你。人們怎麼稱呼Linux並不是個大問題，至少功勞已經都歸給有功勞的人了（兩邊都是）。就我個人來說，我會繼續叫它Linux，……GNU的人希望稱呼它GNU/Linux，這沒問題。它是跟「Linux Pro」或「Red Hat Linux」或「Slackware Linux」這些名稱一樣好的名稱。……Lignux這個名稱只是開玩笑取的，我覺得Linux/GNU或GNU/Linux有點更「專業」……[13][14]
^Free Software as a Social Movement. ZNet. 2005-12-18 [2012-10-19]. （原始内容存档于2012-10-23）. Today tens of millions of users are using an operating system that was developed so they could have freedom -- but they don't know this, because they think the system is Linux and that it was developed by a student "just for fun'.
^Linux and GNU - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation. GNU Project. [2015-08-30]. （原始内容存档于2021-02-01）. So if you were going to pick a name for the system based on who wrote the programs in the system, the most appropriate single choice would be GNU. But we don't think that is the right way to consider the question. The GNU Project was not, is not, a project to develop specific software packages. ... Many people have made major contributions to the free software in the system, and they all deserve credit. But the reason it is an integrated system—and not just a collection of useful programs—is because the GNU Project set out to make it one. We made a list of the programs needed to make a complete free system, and we systematically wrote, or found people to write, everything on the list.
^GNU/Linux FAQ - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation. [2015-08-30]. （原始内容存档于2015-09-05）. Since a long name such as GNU/X11/Apache/Linux/TeX/Perl/Python/FreeCiv becomes absurd, at some point you will have to set a threshold and omit the names of the many other secondary contributions. There is no one obvious right place to set the threshold, so wherever you set it, we won't argue against it ... But one name that cannot result from concerns of fairness and giving credit, not for any possible threshold level, is "Linux". It can't be fair to give all the credit to one secondary contribution (Linux) while omitting the principal contribution (GNU).
^GNU/Linux FAQ - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation. [2015-08-30]. （原始内容存档于2015-09-05）. GNU/Linux recognizes the role that our idealism played in building our community, and helps the public recognize the practical importance of these ideals
^Richard M. Stallman. Linux, GNU, and freedom - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation. 2002 [2015-08-30]. （原始内容存档于2015-08-14）. Calling this variant of the GNU system "Linux" plays into the hands of people who choose their software based only on technical advantage, not caring whether it respects their freedom.
^Linus Torvalds. [PATCH] Remove Bitkeeper documentation from Linux tree. 2002-04-28 [2015-08-30]. （原始内容存档于2011-01-22）. Besides, as the whole notion of "free software" has very little to do with the kernel, please just link to some open source site.
^Some people object that the name "Linux" should be used to refer only to the kernel, not the entire operating system. This claim is a proxy for an underlying territorial dispute; people who insist on the term GNU/Linux want the FSF to get most of the credit for Linux because [Stallman] and friends wrote many of its user-level tools. Neither this theory nor the term GNU/Linux has gained more than minority acceptance.
^Umm, this discussion has gone on quite long enough, thank you very much. It doesn't really matter what people call Linux, as long as credit is given where credit is due (on both sides). Personally, I'll very much continue to call it "Linux", ...The GNU people tried calling it GNU/Linux, and that's ok. It's certainly no worse a name than "Linux Pro" or "Red Hat Linux" or "Slackware Linux" ....Lignux is just a punny name - I think Linux/GNU or GNU/Linux is a bit more "professional" ...
^Well, I think it's justified, but it's justified if you actually make a GNU distribution of Linux ... the same way that I think that "Red Hat Linux" is fine, or "SuSE Linux" or "Debian Linux", because if you actually make your own distribution of Linux, you get to name the thing, but calling Linux in general "GNU Linux" I think is just ridiculous.
^Moore, J.T.S. (Produced, Written, and Directed). Revolution OS (DVD). 2001.
^There are lots of people on this bus; I don't hear a clamor of support that GNU is more essential than many of the other components; can't take a wheel away, and end up with a functional vehicle, or an engine, or the seats. I recommend you be happy we have a bus.
