Re: [-empyre-] ? =÷= ?

[jon.satrom <jon@selectall.org>]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_project

The original announcement [of the GNU project] was followed by 
Stallman's "GNU Manifesto" and other essays that laid out his 
motivations for the GNU project, one of which was to:
"bring back the cooperative spirit that prevailed in the 
[computing/video/hardware.art] community in earlier days."


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jon.s
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On May 21, 2004, at 10:59 PM, Alan Sondheim wrote:

> On Fri, 21 May 2004, jon.satrom wrote:
>
> > Alan Sondheim wrote:
> > > Stahlman has written eloquently on the development and use of the 
> > > term.
> > > Other than that, I'm not sure how you're using it.
> >
> > are you referring to the use of the term "gnu media" or just "gnu" ?
> > if gnu media () i invite you to post the txt+link w/in liken
> > i am interested in stahlman's writings ++ it will create a path to 
> > this
> > discussion.
> >
> > i threw gnu media in to the [lyrical/emmpyrical] [re/mixtape] to
> > generate a path to the openness of of the early community.
>
> I was referencing 'gnu' - not 'gnu media' - but the term is really I 
> think
> Stahlman's - he insists for example on Gnu-Linux and so it gets
> overdetermined - difficult to move elsewhere and for me a bit 
> problematic
> to do so - I have some of the O'Reilly books here on Peer to Peer, use 
> GNU
> Window apps a lot etc - alan
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