Richard Stallman disagrees.
> Richard Stallman disagrees.
Stallman is indeed a disagreeable fellow. :-)
Not many folks these days recall that for many years after Torvalds released his Linux kernel with a huge surrounding body of open-source utilities and programs from Stallman's GNU ("Gnu's Not Unix") project, the combination of the two was referred to as "GNU/Linux" or "Linux+GNU".
Linus has always acknowledged that his contribution was the kernel that Stallman and GNU couldn't seem to get working (the GNU kernel, "Hurd", still isn't working 30 years later).
But users prefer short names, and "Linux" became the popular name of the combination, as well as the kernel.
Stallman still disagrees, of course.