flamingos-cant (hopepunk arc)@feddit.uk to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 18 days agoFree software has some glib naming conventionsfeddit.ukimagemessage-square136fedilinkarrow-up11.11Karrow-down15file-text
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minus-squareQ*Bert Reynolds@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up33arrow-down1·17 days agoI think this is sarcasm, but just in case it isn’t… GNU is a recursive acronym for “GNU’s Not Unix”.
minus-squarewhosepoopisonmybuttocks@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·17 days agoMy guess for why they chose the letter g is that gnu can be phonetically the same as just nu, but keeps people from interpreting the name of the project as a dumb spelling of “new”.
I think this is sarcasm, but just in case it isn’t… GNU is a recursive acronym for “GNU’s Not Unix”.
My guess for why they chose the letter g is that gnu can be phonetically the same as just nu, but keeps people from interpreting the name of the project as a dumb spelling of “new”.
gnot unix