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Perhaps it was meant to be pronounced like Free Ox, since an ox looks a bit like a gnu (wildebeest)


Quite unlikely:

> The first releases of Linux used a license that forbade commercial use. Some of the early contributors suggested a change to a free-software license. In the fall of 1991, Richard Stallman visited Finland and I took Linus to a talk given by Stallman. This, the pressure from contributors, and my nagging eventually convinced Linus to choose the GNU GPL license instead, in early 1992.




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