G

1. [SI] See {quantifiers}.
2. The letter G has special significance in the hacker community, largely thanks to the GNU project and the GPL.

   Many {free software} projects have names that names that begin with G. The GNU project gave many of its projects names that were acronyms beginning with the word "GNU", such as "GNU C Compiler" (gcc) and "GNU Debugger" (gdb), and this launched a tradition. Just as many Java developers will begin their projects with J, many free software developers will begin theirs with G. It is often the case that a program with a G-prefixed name is licensed under the GNU GPL.

   For example, someone may write a free Enterprise Engineering Kludge package (EEK technology is all the rage in the technical journals) and name it "geek" to imply that it is a GPL'd EEK package.

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