Editing Binary File Descriptor library (section)

==History==
When [[David Henkel-Wallace]] of [[Cygnus Solutions|Cygnus Support]] proposed developing the library as a way to open up new business opportunities for the company, [[Richard Stallman]] said that it would be difficult; David's response was that it wasn't such a "Big Fucking Deal". Abbreviated to "BFD", this became the library name.<ref>
{{Cite web
 |      title = Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution
 |date=January 1999
 |  publisher = O'Reilly
 |        url = http://oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/tiemans.html
 | access-date = 2011-11-11
 |      quote = Gumby began designing the library and discussing the design with Stallman. Stallman said that the job was too difficult&mdash;it would require a complete rewrite of all the tools, and it would be too difficult to maintain. Gumby told him it wasn't such a "Big F*cking Deal" and hence named this new creation the BFD library. (We explained to our customers that BFD stood for the binary file descriptor library.) 
}}</ref> "Binary File Descriptor" was invented later as a [[backronym]] for "BFD".