From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Dec 19 21:42:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-201-166.mmcable.com [65.31.201.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BFE5D37B41C for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 21:42:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 75558 invoked by uid 100); 20 Dec 2001 05:42:14 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15393.31286.372691.300145@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 23:42:14 -0600 To: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Cc: Brett Glass , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPL nonsense: time to stop In-Reply-To: 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> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA v0.42/Python 2.1.1 (freebsd4) From: "Mike Meyer" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Gary W. Swearingen 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 . 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 message