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Well for some reason you cannot seem to grasp the concept of Linux being just a kernel so yes, it does depnd on what "Linux is" because to you, somehow a kernel is a whole OS. Kernel.org which is the official repository does not distribute an OS, it distributes a kernel. Get it right. What Microsoft puts on the shelf is a full featured OS including a kernel, windowing system, desktop, "standardized" APIs and the other typical trappings of an OS.

That all may be well and good for geeks but the fact of the matter is that RedHat and other companies are distributing "Linux" as a packaged OS, including ftp servers, dns, Apache, etc. That's why we call it "RedHat Linux". And why, increasingly, your distinctions are meaningless to all but ABMer geeks who want to deflect blame for bugs from Linux to the individual teams.

And why, increasingly, your distinctions are meaningless to all but ABMer geeks who want to deflect blame for bugs from Linux to the individual teams.

Of course it's irrelevent to you that most of those teams are developing cross-platform, not linux, software. If a hole is in Apache, it's in Apache. If a hole is in BASH, it's in BASH. Same with GCC, KDE, GNOME, etc. If a hole exists in Explorer then it's a Windows issue because Microsoft's Windows Development group is one big team in the scheme of things because it works together to make a single large product.