From: "Jose E. Marchesi" <jemarch@gnu.org>
To: James Lu <jamtlu@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniele Nicolodi <daniele@grinta.net>,
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Require "this program is free software .... " notice to be preserved on the splash screen
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 18:38:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eehflxpd.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANQHGB10yVSmM7XgecwJCzXntZwXch=hNenjhJaL-grN9YYO+g@mail.gmail.com> (James Lu's message of "Tue, 16 Feb 2021 00:33:43 -0500")
> I personally became a free software activist through one of these "This
> program is free software, see gnu.org..." notices, so I think it's very
> important we preserve these: to spread the good word of free software,
> which is what Emacs was made to do.
FWIW I also learned about free software back in the nineties after
reading "Debian GNU/Linux" in the motd in a Debian Hamm and thinking
"what the hell is this GNU thing".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-16 17:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-11 6:04 Require "this program is free software .... " notice to be preserved on the splash screen James Lu
2021-02-13 8:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-13 10:48 ` Jean Louis
2021-02-13 12:04 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-02-13 21:49 ` Daniele Nicolodi
2021-02-16 5:19 ` Richard Stallman
2021-02-16 5:33 ` James Lu
2021-02-16 17:38 ` Jose E. Marchesi [this message]
2021-02-16 7:43 ` Daniele Nicolodi
2021-02-14 6:38 ` Richard Stallman
2021-03-24 7:01 ` Jean Louis
2021-03-25 23:35 ` Richard Stallman
2021-03-26 2:32 ` James Lu
2021-03-26 6:33 ` Pankaj Jangid
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