Difference between revisions of "GING"
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GING is a recurrent acronym standing for "GING is not Google." | GING is a recurrent acronym standing for "GING is not Google." | ||
| − | Richard Stallman invented the Free Software Movement with a project called GNU, which is a recurrent acronym for "GNU (is) not Unix." Actually GNU is a slightly modified form of the traditional recurrent | + | Richard Stallman invented the Free Software Movement with a project called GNU, which is a recurrent acronym for "GNU (is) not Unix." Actually GNU is a slightly modified form of the traditional recurrent acronym, because the "I" of "is" is left out. |
GING is not Google. The idea is to apply Free Software principles towards the creation of an alternative to the Google search engine. I say "Free Software" and not "Open Source" software, because this is one case where the whole point is to reject the overwhelming commercialization of the web. Google is right on the front lines of that commercialization, to the extent that the mechanisms for the listing and ranking of sites are increasingly influenced by considerations of how much cash Google can stuff into their own pockets. | GING is not Google. The idea is to apply Free Software principles towards the creation of an alternative to the Google search engine. I say "Free Software" and not "Open Source" software, because this is one case where the whole point is to reject the overwhelming commercialization of the web. Google is right on the front lines of that commercialization, to the extent that the mechanisms for the listing and ranking of sites are increasingly influenced by considerations of how much cash Google can stuff into their own pockets. | ||
