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