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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Earl Kent <earl.kent@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Source and compiling instructions for old version of Emacs (< 19.x)
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:21:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1MX5AO-00086R-7X@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A735183.2050006@gmail.com> (message from Earl Kent on Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:18:11 -0700)

    I'm working on some research projects on the history of text editor 
    technologies and more generally the early days of the free software 
    movement.  As part of that research I would like to compile, on a 
    contemporary Linux distribution, 

Linux is a kernel.  Linux alone is not a sufficient platform to run
any version of GNU Emacs.  You probably mean a GNU/Linux distribution,
which consists of the GNU system and Linux together.

Please don't call the GNU system "Linux" -- it is unfair to us
and it is harmful to our work.

See http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html for more explanation
of this, and http://www.gnu.org/gnu/the-gnu-project.html for the
historical background.

Someone, FSF staff I think, found a copy of Emacs 16 for me a few
months ago.  If you promise never to call the whole system "Linux", I
will ask them to dig it up for you.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-01  3:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-31 20:18 Source and compiling instructions for old version of Emacs (< 19.x) Earl Kent
2009-07-31 20:55 ` Sven Joachim
2009-08-01  3:21 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2009-08-01  4:45   ` Earl Kent
2009-08-01  7:37   ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-03 21:25     ` Stefan Monnier

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