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Many people have made major contributions to the free software in the system, and they all deserve credit for their software. But the reason it is an integrated system &mdash;and not just a collection of useful programs&mdash;is because the GNU Project set out to make it one. We made a list of the programs needed to make a complete free system, and we systematically found, wrote, or found people to write everything on the list. We wrote essential but unexciting (1) components because you can't have a system without them. Some of our system components, the programming tools, became popular on their own among programmers, but we wrote many components that are not tools (2). We even developed a chess game, GNU Chess, because a complete system needs games too.