The name was decided before the acronym, just unfortunate
Being free from megacorps let’s humans be humans, to express themselves, I love it, the jokes are nice (and are jokes, unlike the nightmare abominations like Clippy and their AIs).
I was part of a coding bootcamp, and one day the class was talking about git. Somebody mentioned that “git” is also a word used as an insult, like “That guy is a total git”. When I revealed that was where the name came from, several students audibly gasped, and a couple said something like “Oh, how embarrassing!” I had the weirdest sense of culture shock, and I had no doubt those students would make very good corporate drones.
There are only so many nouns that start with G. Everyone knows all Linux programs must be a noun and an acronym that starts with “GNU” (which is itself a noun and an acronym that starts with GNU)
KDE would liKe to Know your loKation.
Also works with packages having their name starting with OPEN or Libre
He forgot about the third category, silly Trans catgirl programmers :3
Seems like a redundant category, I believe you can comfortably slot them into the other 2 categories
There’s admittedly some overlap
I kinda fall into the DnD category but I’m Asexual
GNU’s not Unix tool kit image manipulation program. As long as you don’t believe Unix actually is an acronym
GNUTKIMP
