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...mixed bag of ululations and disappointments, Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, agreed to enter into a government of national unity (GNU) with fellow opposition leader Arthur Mutambara and the controversial incumbent, Robert Mugabe. Whatever the skepticism and whatever the argument, this deal is a necessary evil...
With this simple request, Torvalds began a process that would complete one of the most extraordinary collaborations in history. In 1984 M.I.T. researcher Richard Stallman had launched the "free-software movement" in a project to build a free operating system that he called GNU. It provided the scaffolding within which Torvalds' kernel ("Linux") could hang. In the dozen years since Torvalds' post, literally thousands of programmers from around the world have authored and tinkered with the GNU and Linux code to produce Microsoft's most dreaded competition. Microsoft's fear is not that this GNU/Linux OS is better. It might...
...course the domestic redundancies of my bigamous friend and of polygamous Green are different in spirit, or at least in arrangement. Green - a stern, bearded, and Biblical sort of character - has lived, without duplicity, the life of a robust gnu. This begetting is hard work. The Sultan of Pasha without the silks, he collected all his wives there in the desert, and they share a common life. My friend, by contrast, conducted a symmetrical, binary life covertly - keeping the right hand ignorant of the left hand's adventures. I think, paradoxically, that in his deepest heart, my friend...
...Utah desert, has five wives and 30 children (the Mormon Church excommunicated Green in 1980 for his belief in polygamy). He has just been convicted of bigamy in Provo, and could get 25 years - five years for each wife - for doing what all self-respecting male waterbuck, eland, and gnu do as a matter of course...
While his ultimate goal of a complete, improved and free Unix-compatible system is in danger of becoming permanent vaporware, FSF and its GNU project have produced several useful (arguably the best) software tools in the business over the past several years. Its GNU C compiler (gcc) is now provided standard on most Unix systems, and emacs--a powerful text editor--is the editor of choice for many computer programmers and enthusiasts...