Z:gnu-www-ja-gnu-linux-faq--b84edc-Other hackers enjoyed that nam/en

Other hackers enjoyed that name so much that we imitated the approach. It became a tradition that, when you were writing from scratch a program that was similar to some existing program (let's imagine its name was &ldquo;Klever&rdquo;), you could give it a recursive acronym name, such as &ldquo;MINK&rdquo; for &ldquo;MINK Is Not Klever.&rdquo; In this same spirit we called our replacement for Unix &ldquo;GNU's Not Unix&rdquo;.