Jim writes:
>in reply to Matthew Dunaway, whom wrote:
>> What the hell does GNU stand for?
>>
>> I have been doing a google-search for the term GNU and came
>> up with nothing.
>>
>> You would think after using Linux for about a year, I would
>> know what GNU stood for..NOT!!! :-)
>>
>
> GNU is Not Unix. Does not make much sense, but...
actually, it does make sense.
GNU is a project to replace the closed-source-no-freedoms
UNIX with something that is compatible, open and free(dom).
It is a paradyme shift, and so was declared 'not unix'.
But what wasn't unix? This new project. Following the
tradition of recursive acronyms, the project was given
the name GNU.
There ya have it in a nutshell.
More history:
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.html
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