Re:X-Clacks-Overhead
by aarestad on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @11:41PM
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I understand that the “GNU” is a series of commands and not an acronym, but is there any sort of connection with FSF GNU? Or is it just an interesting coincidence?
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I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Terry Pratchett, is in fact, GNU Terry Pratchett, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Terry Pratchett.
surely it must be GNU/Terry_Pratchett.
Re:X-Clacks-Overhead
by Majestic121 on Thursday May 12, 2022 @02:56AM
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I think it's too specific an acronym to be a coincidence, and if you read "Going Postal", it's a pretty clear love letter to the hacker culture, so in my mind officially recognized or not, the connection with FSF is there
Re:X-Clacks-Overhead
by cmeacham98 on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @11:53PM
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It's possibkle Pratchett meant it as an intentional reference to the other GNU, but if it was he never told anyone.
He obviously meant it, all his books are full of references like this.
The Annotated Pratchett File is a longrunning effort to document these references, though I'm not sure if it is really being maintained any more -- the Going Postal page is empty.