G

   1. [SI] See {quantifiers}.

   2.  The  letter  G  has special significance in the hacker community,
   largely thanks to the GNU project and the GPL.

   Many  {free  software} projects have names that names that begin with
   G. The GNU project gave many of its projects names that were acronyms
   beginning  with  the  word  "GNU", such as "GNU C Compiler" (gcc) and
   "GNU  Debugger"  (gdb),  and  this launched a tradition. Just as many
   Java  developers will begin their projects with J, many free software
   developers  will  begin  theirs  with  G. It is often the case that a
   program with a G-prefixed name is licensed under the GNU GPL.

   For  example,  someone may write a free Enterprise Engineering Kludge
   package  (EEK  technology  is all the rage in the technical journals)
   and name it "geek" to imply that it is a GPL'd EEK package.

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