Related:

• Linux /lee'nuhks/ or /li'nuks/, not /li:'nuhks/ n.
  The free Unix workalike created by Linus Torvalds and friends starting about 1991....
• oftware hoarding n. Pejorative term employed by members and adherents of the GNU project to describe the act of holding software proprietary
  keeping it under trade secret or license terms which prohibit free redistribution and modification....
• General Public Virus n. Pejorative name for some versions of the GNU project copyleft or General Public License (GPL)
  which requires that any tools or apps incorporating copylefted code must be source-distributed on the same anti-proprietary terms as GNU stuff....
• General Public Virus: n. Pejorative name for some versions of the {GNU} project {copyleft} or General Public License (GPL)
  which requires that any tools or {app}s incorporating copylefted code must be source-distributed on the same counter-commercial terms as GNU stuff....
• abbrev /*-breev'/, /*-brev'/ n. Common abbreviation for `abbreviation'.
• FRS // n.,obs. Abbreviation for "Freely Redistributable Software" which entered general use on the Internet in 1995 after years of low-level confusion over what exactly to call software written to be passed around and shared (contending terms including freeware
  hareware, and `sourceware' were never universally felt to be satisfactory for various subtle reasons)....
• AI /A-I/ n. Abbreviation for `Artificial Intelligence', so common that the full form is almost never written or spoken among hackers.
• GNU /gnoo/, not /noo/ 1. [acronym: `GNU's Not Unix!
  ', see recursive acronym] A Unix-workalike development effort of the Free Software Foundation headed by Richard Stallman &l...
• BSOD /B-S-O-D/ Very commmon abbreviation for Blue Screen of Death. Both spoken and written.