GNU: /gnoo/, _not_ /noo/ 1. [acronym: `GNU's Not Unix!', see
recursive acronym] A Unix-workalike development effort of the
Free Software Foundation headed by Richard Stallman
<<rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu>>. 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 <<gnu@toad.com>>,
founder of Usenet's anarchic alt.* hierarchy.
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