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Free software has some glib naming conventions
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I think this is sarcasm, but just in case it isn't... GNU is a recursive acronym for "GNU's Not Unix".
My guess for why they chose the letter g is that gnu can be phonetically the same as just nu, but keeps people from interpreting the name of the project as a dumb spelling of "new".
gnot unix