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[–] asexualchangeling@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reminds me of a lot of linux names, "Wine Is Not an Emulator" for example

[–] original_ish_name@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What you are referring to as "Linux" is in fact "GNU/Linux" or as I have recently taken to calling it "GNU is Not Unix/Linux"

[–] asexualchangeling@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As someone who was familiar with gimp Long before I ever tried Linux, much less knew what gnu was, I always found it funny that the first letter was itself a recursive acronym