From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Help understanding the URL code
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 07:20:50 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cab95579-9fcc-4aae-b64f-6f47ad4b4e03@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvk2k9va9m.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org>
> Why. The product's name is "Emacs". I don't know of any other
> software whose name is Emacs, so it's unambiguous.
There have been, and perhaps still are, other flavors of Emacs,
besides GNU Emacs. Emacs predates the creation of GNU.
> But our software's name is not "GNU-Emacs", it's "Emacs" (and
> it's not "GNU Emacs" either, AFAIC).
Really? To me it is "GNU Emacs". It is the GNU flavor of Emacs.
Anything else would be misleading, IMO, if not presumptuous.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-07 14:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-05 15:37 Help understanding the URL code Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-04-05 16:54 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-04-06 11:34 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-07 11:02 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-04-07 12:32 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-07 12:53 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-04-07 13:01 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-07 13:02 ` Yuri Khan
2016-04-07 13:13 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-04-07 13:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-04-07 13:32 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-04-07 14:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-04-07 14:28 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-04-07 15:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-04-07 16:28 ` John Wiegley
2016-04-07 13:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-04-07 14:20 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2016-04-07 21:18 ` Richard Stallman
2016-04-07 17:00 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-04-24 12:51 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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