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 <
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> > 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.
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