Z:gnu-www-ja-gnu-linux-faq--badda6-The people who combined Linux/en

The people who combined Linux with the GNU system were not aware that that's what their activity amounted to. They focused their attention on the piece that was Linux and did not realize that more of the combination was GNU. They started calling it &ldquo;Linux&rdquo; even though that name did not fit what they had. It took a few years for us to realize what a problem this was and ask people to correct the practice. By that time, the confusion had a big head start.