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/gnoo/ , not , /noo/ 1. [acronym: GNU s Not Unix!', see recursive acronym ]
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A Unix-workalike development effort of the Free Software Foundation headed
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by Richard Stallman. GNU EMACS and the GNU C compiler, two tools designed
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for this project, have become very popular in hackerdom and elsewhere. The
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GNU project was designed partly to proselytize for RMS's position that
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information is community property and all software source should be shared.
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One of its slogans is Help stamp out software hoarding! Though this remains
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controversial (because it implicitly denies any right of designers to own,
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assign, and sell the results of their labors), many hackers who disagree
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with RMS have nevertheless cooperated to produce large amounts of
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high-quality software for free redistribution under the Free Software
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Foundation's imprimatur. The GNU project has a web page at
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http://www.gnu.org/. See EMACS , copyleft , General Public Virus , Linux. 2.
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Noted Unix hacker John Gilmore gnu@toad.com }, founder of Usenet's anarchic
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alt.* hierarchy.
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