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Re: rms on debian



On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 08:05:14AM -0500, 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?

It stands for GNU. Dictionary definition for recursion: see recursion.
:-)

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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