Again i will try to bring up discussion about "WTF that GNU is?".
A operating system, much like BSD. That several millions of users use without knowing about it.
1. 10+ years of the discussion: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=104931588910174&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=104931588909978&w=2
Yes, and people have argued for as long about micro- vs monolhitic-kernels, emacs vs vi, unix vs vms, and what not. Some people like to discuss things, me included.
2. FSF problems with GCC: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/450746 http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/josh/sparse.git;a=blob;f=FAQ;h=aad658282a72477837629e7f521ed4cced5f45dc;hb=HEAD
Looks more like Jörn not being willing to sign a 2 sided piece of A4. Copyright assignments are important if you wish to be able to enforce the license of a project without having to talk to each copyright holder.
3. FSF problems with glibc maintainer -- mister Drepper (look@wikipedia).
Wikipedia doesn't have the full story. But conflicts happen in any project, big or small, and some conflicts are less pretty since sometimes you have two strong willed people.
Also note that the GNU C library is not Ulrich's project, he might be one of the caretakers of it, but in the end it is the head of the GNU project that decides who is and who is not the maintainer. If Ulrich, or anyone else, doesn't agree to follow the policies of the GNU project, then they should stop down as maintainers, it is quite that simple. That is what a GNU maintainer does, sees to that the policies of the GNU project are followed.
4. Read carefully, who (David MacKenzie) is deserving acknowledgment for GNU tools here: http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/a/apache/apache_1.3.34-4/apache.copyright
Well, yes, since David and Larry wrote a tool for the GNU project, like many other hackers. Many GNU programs output who wrote the tool, you can type `tool --version' and see, this is what `diff --version' outputs: Written by Paul Eggert, Mike Haertel, David Hayes, Richard Stallman, and Len Tower.
Maybe i'm too young to understand something more, than i do, anyway after 6+ years of being with *-linux-gnu-*, i think FSF+RMS is wrong.
It would be most interesting to hear why you think the FSF and/or RMS are wrong; and about what they are wrong about. But don't confuse the two, the FSF is not RMS, nor is RMS the FSF.
You think that the GNU project is crap, but you haven't articulated why you belive so. Nobody is forcing you to use GNU, you could equally use OpenBSD or similar, which is also a free operating system. Or you could build a operating system using the tools you suggested and use that.
Cheers.