From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: GianUberto.Lauri@eng.it (Gian Uberto Lauri) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How old are Emacs users? Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 18:59:51 -0400 Message-ID: <17979.47847.711260.680216@mail.eng.it> References: <1178258085.859424.131690@c35g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: saint@eng.it NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178297988 9546 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2007 16:59:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 16:59:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: sixdegreepub@gmail.com Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 04 18:59:46 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hk18C-0005BC-3r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 18:59:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hk1Eq-0006nB-5X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 13:06:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hk1Eb-0006n6-4I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 13:06:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hk1EY-0006lB-ND for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 13:06:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hk1EY-0006kz-Jq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 13:06:18 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.eng.it ([62.101.90.18] helo=mail.eng.it) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hk17t-0006M7-Fv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 12:59:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.eng.it (dioscuri-posta-gb [192.168.99.21]) by deliver.antivirus (Postfix) with SMTP id C08A418014; Fri, 4 May 2007 18:59:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from gastone (unknown [192.168.22.115]) by mail.eng.it (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FEC618012; Fri, 4 May 2007 18:59:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <1178258085.859424.131690@c35g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.0.98.1 X-attribution: CC X-Zippy: Yow! Legally-imposed CULTURE-reduction is CABBAGE-BRAINED! X-PMX-Version: 5.3.0.289146 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:43677 Archived-At: >>>>> "s" == sixdegreepub writes: s> I'm 15 and I began to use Emacs and Linux recently. Oh, wise boy! You did a smart choiche, not only because they are powerful, but also because they are Free (as in Freedom). s> I say that is unknown, because I am not able to tell my classmates s> what its advantage is. First of all there are the four freedoms: 0) You are free to use them as you wish, without limits. Those who do not use Free Software have their programs bound to be used on only one machine at a time (or worse) and preinstalled operative system are often licensed for a specific computer (you can't use them on another computer, even if the previous one is wrecked). 1) You are free to see how they are built, learn how to change them and do the changes you need. Knowing how some programs are build is totally impossible to do. 2) You can distribute copies. With proprietary software this is called piracy... 3) You can distribute your own changes. Even if you manage to patch some proprietary software, it's unlikely you can redistribute the patch (forget about the software itself) s> Also that is because I am not familiar with Emacs. There is always something to learn with Emacs :). You will learn that Emacs can work for you as opposed to require you to manouver it over and over again... Start with C-x ( and C-x ). -- /\ ___ /___/\_|_|\_|__|___Gian Uberto Lauri_____ //--\| | \| | Integralista GNUslamico \/ e coltivatore diretto di Software