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Igor Moura

HURD was, and still is, not really useful for anything.

I don't think GNU deserves any other mention that what it already has in the license files and some package names.

Even in the link you posted they base relevance on line of code amount. If we go by that metric, then even a web browser deserves way more credits than GNU itself due to their higher LoC amont, but we don't see anyone calling their systems Chrome/Linux or Firefox/BSD.

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Dharshan Bharathuru

I do think GNU deserves a mention.

If Linux was solely developed, and not combined with an OS like suite(which was already present) no one would have used it. Or if GNU tried (still trying to write a completely Free kernel) it would have been ages to see a Free and Open Source Operating System. By the time we all would have became slaves to big tech conglomerate.

A complete FOSS OS is true now because of both GNU and Linux so they does deserve mentioning.