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I feel like everyone's just too polite to say that Richard Stallman's just another programmer.  What has he actually done?  He's tried to attach himself to the coattails of Linux with his infamous "interjection," but his own Unix effort took 30 years and is mostly unused.  What else?  Emacs?  Does the author of Notepad++ get worldwide recognition for his efforts?

I'm not saying the man's useless, just that there are people who do more for less recognition.  Enough zealotry already.

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Incorrect. The kernel and kernel program (drivers and shit) are called the operating system. With the user base programs, shell, and everything, it is called a software distribution. Because the kernel has no useful programs, and every one has their own idea of how what and how the user programs should be, we have well over 200+ flavours of Linux Distributions (Distros).

However you are correct, language changes constantly, especially when people keep repeating it incorrectly. Which is why the words like "bachelor," "awful," "basement," "hacker," et cetera have changed their meaning over time.

And GPL is just copyright with requirements, a license that acts like a contract with free service. Which is why there are other better licenses: FreeBSD, MIT, public domain (which is gone in the US)*

*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golan_v._Holder
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/01/scotus-re-copyright-decision/
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/6543
http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/golan-v-holder/