GNU is not Unix - that's what it stands for - 'GNU's Not Unix' which, if one
keeps expanding the abbreviation is, in computational terms, infinitely
recursive. The irony of this title, which was, I'm sure, not lost on its
inventors, was that infinitely recursive procedures eventually cause any
real computer to run out of memory and crash!
Bruce Robinson
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Barowy" <wbarowy@attbi.com>
To: <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
Sent: 23 May 2002 03:26
Subject: what's gnu?
Have you gone completely gnu, using linux too?
bb
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 07:38 pm, Nate Schmolze wrote:
> The Office Org 1.0 is the GNU (free) version of Star Office 6.0. I have
> been using the beta for the past two years and can not live without it.
>
> Like, if I want to put a graphic 7.12 cm from the left side of the page I
> can really do it.
>
> Nate
> From: Bill Barowy <wbarowy@attbi.com>
>
> >Reply-To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> >To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> >Subject: Re: VIRUSes HOAXes Security/Trust Relations and, of course,
> >Contradictions
> >Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 18:35:40 -0400
> >
> >I completely agree with the technical side of the solutions too, Nate.
> >They
> >are part of the necessarily-systemic transformations.
> >
> >Relatedly, Sun microsystem's Star Office is interoperable with MS office
> >and
> >version 5.2 is available for Windows pc's for free, downloadable off the
> >web:
> >
> >http://wwws.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/5.2/get/get.html
>
> nAtE
>
> vygotsky@charter.net
> http://webpages.charter.net/schmolze1/
>
>
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