From: gfoot AT mc31 DOT merton DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot)
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Subject: Re: GNU meaning
Date: 2 Mar 1997 13:23:45 GMT
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Alain Bacon (abacon AT videotron DOT ca) wrote:
: Hi, I must be the only one in this news group but I don't know what the GNU accronym stands for.
: I have read these three magical letters for some time now without even thinking about it but 
: today it noticed the fact. So please anyone: what does GNU mean?

Quoting from the GNU Manifesto:

> What's GNU?  Gnu's Not Unix!
> ============================
> 
>    GNU, which stands for Gnu's Not Unix, is the name for the complete
> Unix-compatible software system which I am writing so that I can give it
> away free to everyone who can use it. [...]

This was written by Richard Stallman quite a while ago (1985?); since then
the GNU project has flourished.

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George Foot <gfoot AT mc31 DOT merton DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
Merton College, Oxford.