From: Dan Anderson <dan@mathjunkies.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Knoppix is not entirely free software
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 22:44:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1068695040.4610.106.camel@hades.syr-24-59-76-83.twcny.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1AK7OV-0001Z8-E4@fencepost.gnu.org>
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 21:39, Richard Stallman wrote:
> A few months ago, I found out that Knoppix included some non-free
> software, and the developer said he didn't want to change that.
>
> If he has changed his policies in the meantime, please tell me; that
> would be good news. But otherwise, please do not recommend the use of
> Knoppix on GNU mailing lists. Please recommend only entirely free
> software.
>
> (I am not on the help-gnu-emacs list; someone forwarded me a couple of
> messages on this thread.)
That would explain it. The original poster asked for GNU/Linux
recommendations and said he had heard Knoppix was good. So nobody was
recommending Knoppix -- although there was some confusion as not
everyone knew you can install Knoppix like a regular *nix distro.
-Dan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-13 3:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-13 2:39 Knoppix is not entirely free software Richard Stallman
2003-11-13 3:44 ` Dan Anderson [this message]
[not found] ` <rms@gnu.org>
2003-11-14 4:30 ` Peter S Galbraith
2003-11-14 7:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <eliz@elta.co.il>
2003-11-14 19:00 ` Peter S Galbraith
2003-11-14 20:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-11-14 20:10 ` Richard Stallman
2003-11-14 20:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-11-14 20:21 ` Peter S Galbraith
2003-11-15 16:37 ` Richard Stallman
2003-11-15 18:31 ` Peter S Galbraith
2003-11-16 3:52 ` Dan Anderson
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