From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: Bug#139792: emacs21: Press PageDown, get infinite loop Date: 16 Apr 2002 01:20:02 +0200 Organization: T-Online Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87k7ran9bo.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <200204152200.g3FM0GD23812@aztec.santafe.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1018912873 23475 127.0.0.1 (15 Apr 2002 23:21:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 23:21:13 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16xFmb-00066P-00 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 01:21:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16xFmg-0005ZD-00; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 19:21:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout10.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.21]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16xFlU-0005WH-00 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 19:20:04 -0400 Original-Received: from imh00.t-online.com by mailout10.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 16xFlT-0003AU-00; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 01:20:03 +0200 Original-Received: from news.t-online.com by imh00.t-online.com with esmtp id 16xFlT-0004Ei-00; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 01:20:03 +0200 Original-Received: from news by news.t-online.com with local id 16xFlS-0007iC-00; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 01:20:02 +0200 Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@prep.ai.mit.edu Original-Path: news.t-online.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1018912802 07 29019 -Uh4TDVXSbaulO 020415 23:20:02 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@t-online.com X-Sender: 520018396234-0001@t-dialin.net X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6,xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN;i";/yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.50 Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:680 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:680 rms@gnu.org (Richard Stallman) writes: > > WHAT IS LINUX? > > > > Linux is a Unix clone written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with > > assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. > > It aims towards POSIX compliance. > > That isn't true--I am sad to see that the kernel developers are > distributing this inaccurate statement. See > http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html. > > > It is distributed under the GNU General Public License - see the > > accompanying COPYING file for more details. > > The kernel is released under the GNU GPL, but the whole system--the > Unix clone--is not. It includes components such as X11, GNU libc, > Apache, TeX, etc., which have other licenses. X11, Apache or TeX are not part of Unix, they just run under it. In contrast, the C library, which glibc provides an alternative implementation of, is. So you seem to demand people to draw a fine line of distinction which you are not exactly placing correctly, either. How ironic. > The kernel developers ought to know this. How did they manage to > overlook it? It appears that they were fooled by their own confusing > practice of calling the whole system "Linux." Fooled, as millions of > others have been fooled. How ironic! -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum Email: David.Kastrup@t-online.de