Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 23:42:14 -0600 From: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1009258934.98e225@mired.org> To: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPL nonsense: time to stop Message-ID: <15393.31286.372691.300145@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <mm4rmmxxtq.rmm@localhost.localdomain> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20011217221801.02841bc0@localhost> <20011218121011.E21649@monorchid.lemis.com> <4hzo4hyv3c.o4h@localhost.localdomain> <4.3.2.7.2.20011218181554.00d6f900@localhost> <mm4rmmxxtq.rmm@localhost.localdomain>
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Gary W. Swearingen <swear@blarg.net> types: > I don't know what coincidence you might be referring to, but I guess > that GNU might have been born of "Guild for a New Unix" before it was > decided that the "guild" concept wouldn't propagandise well while the > cutsie recursive thing would. Well, the concept would, just not the > word; "community" is so much more PC, if less precise. Just a guess. I think GNU predated the "pc-ness" of community. I know that recursive acronyms predate GNU; see the jargon file entry at <URL: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/recursive-acronym.html >. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the messagehome | help
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