Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

[Gordon Messmer]

Mark Haney wrote:
> 
> Personally, I think the demand by Stallman, and others to call Linux 
> 'GNU/Linux' is just stupid and childish.

It isn't.  Stallman's concern is for our Freedom to use the computers 
that we purchase for our own ends and needs, rather than as dictated to 
us by someone else.  Linus has repeatedly shown that he doesn't care 
about that Freedom, and RMS would be a fool to step aside and let Linus 
act as a steward for it.

I wholeheartedly agree with Alexandre's assessment, but I tend to 
describe my own reasoning much more tersely:

GNU/Linux is an operating system.  It implements the interfaces 
described by POSIX.  Applications written to conform to that standard 
will build and run on GNU/Linux.

Linux is a kernel.  It implements no documented standard (and maintains 
a policy against stable interfaces).  Applications do not run on Linux.