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_reality_check_on We Just Thought, 'This Is How You Start a Company in America'

> From random readings, it appears that great musicians, scientists, artists live not only during the same era, but usually very close to one another.

I'm highly skeptical of this claim. Can you back it up?

_reality_check_on You broke the internet. We'll make ourselves a GNU one

Yes, but the point actually being made is that the name GNU (GNU's Not Unix) is esoteric && dated. Notwithstanding the org's prior accomplishments of course.

_reality_check_on You broke the internet. We'll make ourselves a GNU one

The name "GNU" and its abhorrent pronunciation has been such a branding failure on the part of the free software movent.

Yet, the creators continue to wonder why those outside the tech world approach these issues with a high level of apathy.

A movement filled with in-jokes and "geeky humor" will never gain the support from the general public desperately needed for real change.