Z:gnu-www-ja-google-engineering-talk--ca9005-The reason we have the GNU+Lin/en

The reason we have the GNU+Linux system is because of a many-year campaign for freedom. We in the GNU Project didn't develop Linux, just as we didn't develop X, or TeX, or various other free programs that are now important parts of the system. But people who didn't share our values, who weren't motivated by the determination to live in freedom, would have seen no reason to aim for a complete system, and they would never have done so, and never have produced such a thing, if not for us.