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Subject: Re: EMACS, GNU, other goodies
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Date: Tue, 5-May-87 16:01:29 EDT
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GNU (pronounced "g-noo"), which stands for Gnu's Not Unix, is the name for
the complete Unix-compatible software system which Richard Stallman of the
MIT AI Lab started writing so that he could give it away FREE to everyone who
could use it.  Several programmers have joined him, and they have written
several pieces of wonderful software, including Gnu Emacs, C, Pascal, YACC,
and a lot more.  Their philosophy, in a line, is that "copying all or parts
of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive.
It ought to be as free", and that "if I like a program I must share it with
other people who like it" [from the Gnu Emacs manual].

For more info, try reading comp.emacs (or get on the corresponding mailing
list called info-gnu-emacs@prep.mit.edu), or write to FSF, 1000 Mass Ave.,
Cambridge, MA 02138.

By the way, Gnu software is free, and everyone's allowed to modify and
redistribute it freely, but it's NOT in the public domain.

-- Ashwin Ram --

Any misrepresentations of the GNU project are totally unintentional.  I have
no connections with GNU or FSF except as a satisfied user.

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