Z:gnu-www-ja-linux-and-gnu--040fbc-But that is not the deepest wa/en

But that is not the deepest way to consider the question. The GNU Project was not, is not, a project to develop specific software packages. It was not a project  to develop a C compiler, although we did that. It was not a project to develop a text editor, although we developed one. The GNU Project set out to develop a complete free Unix-like system : GNU.