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The "G" (first letter) in Gentoo stands for "GNU". Also, |
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Achim, our lead developer, has the last name "Gottinger". The |
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"G" in Gottinger stands for "GNU". My last name is "Robbins", |
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and the "s" in Robbins stands for "Stallman". Whenever I type |
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a "G", "N", "U" or "S" on my keyboard, you can be sure that I |
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do so with full and total reverence towards Richard Stallman |
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and the GNU project. Sometimes, I purposely type the word |
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"snug" and tears well up inside me. |
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It's been a while, Dan. Nice to see that you have more of a sense of |
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humour about things now. :) |
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Little known fact: Psygnosis US was also located at 675 |
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Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA. I worked at Psygnosis for a |
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couple of years. We were on the sixth floor, and the GNU mail |
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room was in the basement. Our warehouse was in the basement. |
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We had cool things in our warehouse, like full stock of all |
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Psygnosis products, posters, and cool stand-up cardboard |
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Lemmings. In their mailroom? Two strange women and a bag of |
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mail. My point? I'll let you try to figure that out. |
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So GNU has two strange women in their mail room. At Psygnosis, you |
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were writing proprietary software, likely under non-disclosure |
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agreements, writing what *others* told you to write, and the company |
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had no personality. If there was a god, she would punish writing |
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proprietary software and signing NDAs. |
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The policy is that we include all the good stuff we can get |
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our hands on. I haven't heard of anyone getting arrested for |
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linking python with libreadline. |
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That's right, because who cares if you are free to do with your |
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software as you please? |