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, founder
of Usenet's anarchic alt.* hierarchy.