Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!ll-xn!mit-eddie!bu-cs!tower From: tower@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: EMACS, GNU, other goodies Message-ID: <7339@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Date: Wed, 6-May-87 14:28:19 EDT Article-I.D.: bu-cs.7339 Posted: Wed May 6 14:28:19 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 9-May-87 00:52:36 EDT References: <8705052001.AA06517@yale-eli.arpa> Reply-To: tower@bu-cs.bu.edu Distribution: world Organization: Distributed Systems Group, Boston University, 111 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA +1 (617) 353-2780 Lines: 49 Home: 36 Porter Street, Somerville, MA 02143, USA +1 (617) 623-7739 In article <8705052001.AA06517@yale-eli.arpa> ram-ashwin@YALE.ARPA (Ashwin Ram) writes: > 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. ... > 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. > Ashwin: Nice Summary. 1) There is not yet a Pascal available. GCC is out in a preliminary test version for vax's and Sun's. It would NOT be hard to add a front end for Pascal and the small amount of needed back-end support. 2) If you wish to join info-gnu-emacs, ask the address info-gnu-emacs-REQUEST@prep.ai.mit.edu Otherwise you will needlessly bother thousands of people with your request. 3) Further information on GNU is available from the address: gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu 4) Though GNU Software is free, people may charge to distribute or maintain it. They have to provide you with full source code though and can NOT restrict you from redistributing the source code. See the GNU Public License for full details. enjoy -len PS: prep's uucp path is ..!ucbvax!prep.ai.mit.edu!.. -- Len Tower, Distributed Systems Group, Boston University, 111 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA +1 (617) 353-2780 Home: 36 Porter Street, Somerville, MA 02143, USA +1 (617) 623-7739 UUCP: {}!harvard!bu-cs!tower INTERNET: tower@bu-cs.bu.edu