"The Feminist Software Foundation intends to write a whole OS (complete with an editor, an interpreter, coreutils, a desktop environment, a raster graphics manipulator, and maybe, if we have the time, a microkernel, but maybe that will never be completed, and we'll just use another person's kernel instead, who knows).
That summation is precisely (with interpreter subbed for compiler) the story of the GNU crew. Linus provided the kernel, and the name nearly everyone uses for the result.