Re: Please sit down before reading this, and take a deep breath.

["Murray Cumming" <murrayc murrayc com>]

> On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 16:47 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
>
>> > What is GNOME?  We seem to fond of asking that question these days.
>> The
>> > answer is simple: it is the GNU Network Object Model Environment.
>>
>> That is never ever the answer, and hasn't been for a long time. If it's
>> anywhere on our web sites, it should be removed.
>
> Oh!  Then why do we capitalise it?

For consistency. It would be harmless to change it to "Gnome" if the
marketing team decided that this is a good idea.

>  Is it still an acronym?

No.

>  If so, what
> do the letters stand for?



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