From: James Lu <jamtlu@gmail.com>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: Daniele Nicolodi <daniele@grinta.net>, 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 00:33:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANQHGB10yVSmM7XgecwJCzXntZwXch=hNenjhJaL-grN9YYO+g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1lBslN-00049T-Ga@fencepost.gnu.org>
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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.
On Tue, Feb 16, 2021, 12:19 AM Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>
> > > In order to avoid another fiasco of the sort of the GNU/Linux
> > > controversy, where a variant of GNU software was called something
> else
> > > and disassociated from free software,
> > To what do you refer exactly here? I don't recall anything like this
> > ever happening, but your terse description may not help my memory.
>
> I think Lu was referring to the widespread misnomer of "Linux system"
> when referring to a variant of the GNU system which has Linux as the
> kernel. See https://gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html and
> https://gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html.
>
>
> --
> Dr Richard Stallman
> Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
> Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
> Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-16 5:33 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 [this message]
2021-02-16 17:38 ` Jose E. Marchesi
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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