Comment on Ironically, people making fun of the "Gnu/Linux" copypasta is probably one of the main ways people know what Gnu is

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Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

My only gripe with GNU is the acronym itself.

Sure, the joke is clever, a recursive acronym “GNU is Not Unix”, cute. But they could have used absolutely any letter as the first letter and that joke would still work. So why didn’t they choose something pronounceable? I mean, the option was right there. ENU, ANU, INU, ONU, SNU, those would all work. Hell, even NNU would work, you could pronounce it “the new project”.

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