On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 08:05, Rthoreau wrote: > What gets me is what does the G stand for in GNU? > > 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? That's why 'GNU' is called a recursive acronym. It's an acronym that refers to itself. As far as proper English is concerned, recursive acronyms are 'wrong', but as far as geeks dating back to the MIT AI lab and earlier, they're considered quite clever. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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