Some people are taking Alsup's reaction to the GNU acronym as a sign that he doesn't understand nerd shit
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Helping the jury, maybe? "Yeah, it's crazy, just go with it"
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maybe! I also feel like it's a normal reaction to a really silly naming practice?
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I get the recursion thing, I still think it's very silly
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Exactly. What we all said the first time we heard it. But couldn't be his first time so I'm wondering if moving the jury past it
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I wonder! It *is* the second trial, but it really might have been the first time the acronym came up.
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Well, he did have "General" right, right?
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yep! Over Andy Rubin's (incorrect) insistence that it was GNU Public License, too
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(he also pronounces GNU correctly)
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He has a math degree, so I'd give him the benefit of the doubt.
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odd for someone with a math degree to say "that doesn't make sense". "That's silly", I could understand.
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"make any sense" is colloquially the same as being silly
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I guess? Suspect it's more likely a factor of not thinking about math for 50 years
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The problem is that we have a cultural divide, one that is built into the official names and structures of open source
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the wikipedia page on recursive acronyms is pretty neat. A few notable examples: PHP, RPM, and Nano.
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is "GNU" really any more of a poor use of a definition than "probable cause"?
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rms would be sad.
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:OOOOOOO
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