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Re: [Miles Bader <address@hidden>] fancy-splash & GNU systems
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: [Miles Bader <address@hidden>] fancy-splash & GNU systems |
Date: |
Thu, 28 Sep 2000 23:25:18 +0200 |
> From: Noah Friedman <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 11:39:42 -0700 (PDT)
>
> >If the problem is only the sentence about Emacs being part of some
> >system, then I'm not sure I understand why do we need to say that on
> >Linux. If this is somehow important, I agree with Miles that
> >something similar should be said on other systems.
[snip]
> But let me suggest that perhaps the special case is offensive.
What special case? As far as I could see, I was trying to argue that
the text should be similar on all systems. And Miles was saying
something similar, unless my command of the English language became
really shabby lately.
> If it were up to me, I would take out the special-cased "Linux-based GNU
> system" and instead put the legend "One component of a free software
> system" and display it on all systems.
Saying that is IMHO useless; we already say that Emacs is Free
Software. We might as well simply leave it at that. Which will be
just fine by me, btw.