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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>GNU</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../G.html" title="G"/><link rel="previous" href="gnarly.html" title="gnarly"/><link rel="next" href="gnubie.html" title="gnubie"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">GNU</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="gnarly.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">G</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="gnubie.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="GNU"/><dt xmlns="" id="GNU"><b>GNU</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/gnoo/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="emphasis"><em>not</em></span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/noo/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [acronym: ‘GNU’s Not Unix!', see <a href="../R/recursive-acronym.html"><i class="glossterm">recursive
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acronym</i></a>] A Unix-workalike development effort of the Free
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Software Foundation headed by Richard Stallman. GNU EMACS and the GNU C
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compiler, two tools designed for this project, have become very popular in
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hackerdom and elsewhere. The GNU project was designed partly to
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proselytize for RMS's position that information is community property and
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all software source should be shared. One of its slogans is “<span class="quote">Help
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stamp out software hoarding!</span>” Though this remains controversial
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(because it implicitly denies any right of designers to own, assign, and
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sell the results of their labors), many hackers who disagree with RMS have
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nevertheless cooperated to produce large amounts of high-quality software
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for free redistribution under the Free Software Foundation's imprimatur.
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The GNU project has a web page at <a href="http://www.gnu.org/" target="_top">http://www.gnu.org/</a>. See
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<a href="../E/EMACS.html"><i class="glossterm">EMACS</i></a>, <a href="../C/copyleft.html"><i class="glossterm">copyleft</i></a>,
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<a href="General-Public-Virus.html"><i class="glossterm">General Public Virus</i></a>, <a href="../L/Linux.html"><i class="glossterm">Linux</i></a>.
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</p></dd><dd><p> 2. Noted Unix hacker John Gilmore <tt class="email"><<a href="mailto:gnu@toad.com">gnu@toad.com</a>></tt>},
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founder of Usenet's anarchic alt.* hierarchy.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="gnarly.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="gnubie.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">gnarly </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> gnubie</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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