And yet anybody who has spent any time learning about or working with Linux understands how fundamentally important the GNU tools are. If, a long time ago, he h

And yet anybody who has spent any time learning about or working with Linux understands how fundamentally important the GNU tools are. If, a long time ago, he had been more gracious and not essentially made a joke out of the fact that the OS is called Linux much more than it's called GNU, I could easily imagine a present where he is seen as one of the fundamental co-creators of the operating system most commonly called 'Linux'—or, to be honest, Ubuntu—rather than a crank who will hunt you down if you don't say the word 'slash' out loud. GNU's mindshare is only so lousy because they're so famous for a silly insistence on an inconvenient and irrelevant nomenclature.