> Linux developers have created dependencies on Linux.
Sorry, ignoring the rest of the thread: this statement isn't true even marginally. There are linux distributions that can operate on other kernels than Linux. Debian was my favourite choice for this with their HURD (https://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/) and kFreeBSD (https://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/) implementation.
The GNU userland itself does not depend on Linux either.
You can run GNU utilities on MacOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD.
I’m happy to take a different name, but Wikipedia at least refers to it this way.
Debian themselves say that they’re an operating system.
Regardless; many (if not most, if not close to all) utilities developed on top of Linux are portable across not only distributions, but other kernels or even operating systems.
It’s not fair to say that “those people who develop on systems with Linux kernels only support linux”.
Sorry, ignoring the rest of the thread: this statement isn't true even marginally. There are linux distributions that can operate on other kernels than Linux. Debian was my favourite choice for this with their HURD (https://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/) and kFreeBSD (https://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/) implementation.
The GNU userland itself does not depend on Linux either.
You can run GNU utilities on MacOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD.