On Tue, 7 Oct 2008, Chuck Cole wrote:

> On Tue, 7 Oct 2008, Mike Miller wrote:
>
>> Well the first name used for the system was GNU, wasn't it?  Then Linus 
>> wrote a kernel and named it Linux, after himself, and said that it was 
>> "nothing" without GNU.  So why don't we call the system that includes 
>> the Linus' kernel GNU, which was its original name?
>
> KISS.. otherwise we must give credit to von Neumann, and ...

OK.  GNU it is.  You are right.  Why even mention the name of the kernel 
when the system had the name GNU from day one?

Mike