Check RMS speeches on http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html#Speeches The Free Software Movement ones have all that explanation. Basically it goes: hackers only find acronyms fun when they have at least 2 meanings. GNU joins that (the animal gnu and, phonetically, new) with recursion: GNU means GNU's Not Unix that means GNU's Not Unix's Not Unix, etc. Hear one of the speeches on how he arrived at GNU. A Qua, 2003-08-20 às 14:05, Rthoreau escreveu: > I get the rest of the saying GNU is Not Unix, but it still does not > come up with what the G stands for. At least AFAIK no one has ever > come up with a good reason for the G other than GNU. Maybe someone > can explain it to me who know these things better. I also thought it > was a no/no to refer to a name within a name without a definition? > > How can I understand RMS when I don't even understand GNU? > > Rthoreau -- João Miguel Neves <joao@silvaneves.org>
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