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Free software has some glib naming conventions (infosec.pub)

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[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 day ago

Well it kind of stands for nothing, because at the center of this onion is GNU, which is recursive. It stands for "GNU's Not UNIX", so the G in GNU stands for GNU.