GNU - The Philosophy That Became a License Compliance Problem

The Project

In 1983, Richard Stallman announced the GNU Project with the goal of creating a free Unix-like operating system. Free as in freedom, not as in price — the distinction he has made approximately eight hundred million times since and which remains genuinely important and genuinely exhausting to explain to new people. By the early 1990s, GNU had most of the components for a complete OS: compilers, utilities, editors. What it lacked was a kernel. Linus Torvalds provided the kernel in 1991. Stallman argues, with some justification, that the result should be called GNU/Linux to acknowledge the GNU components. The rest of the world says "Linux." Stallman has been correcting people about this since 1992. It has not worked.

The GNU/Tirefire thing practically writes itself.