Oh, absolutely! Linux is not userland. That's kind of my point: if you want to talk Linux + Userland, you're generally talking a distribution. The problem I have is that GNU is not a distribution; it is more of a philosophy, or better put, a movement. Many software packages have been written within this project; others have been designed in sympathy with it, but outside the project; yet others stand independent from GNU, or even in opposition to it. Software of all these sorts can be found in most distributions. (The Linux kernel itself is most emphatically not part of the GNU project.)

Right. Calling a Linux + Userland OS just "Linux" is an erosion of meaning. Calling a Linux + Userland OS "GNU/Linux" is even worse, as it (a) endorses using the name "Linux" to describe the entire OS, and (b) incorrectly implies that the entire package is subsumed within the GNU project.