Well, I was really having a shot at Morpheus. Point is, we've known about PE for more than a week, now, when suddenly, up comes this news (not) by e-mail. Seems to have taken them quite a while to get the information out, doesn't it?
On the subject of the name, Gnutella (abbreviated to Gnu in some of the preamble to PE)- it triggered off my thoughts regarding a fun song by Cook & Moore - betcha Snarkridden will remember it, if he's old enough!
But, etymologically, I can't find any reference to the Gnu prefix in the New Oxford Dictionary - gno, yes - shortform of gnosis (Gr.) knowledge. But Gnu - its just a kind of antelope!
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"You are old, father William," the young man said,
"And you hair has become very white;
And yet you incessantly stand on you head -
Do you think, at your age, it is right?"
Lewis Carroll.
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