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From: tower@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Freeware vs. GNU Emacs
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Date: 25 Jan 88 22:08:55 GMT
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In article <6450@oberon.USC.EDU> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
|After having seen printed some messages pointing out the supposedly "free"
|nature of GNU Emacs as opposed to the "shareware/freeware" nature of a
|variety of programs for the Amiga, which ask for donations, I'd like to point 
|out the fallacy of that argument.
|
|The "GNU Emacs availability information" screen, available to everyone with
|2 keystrokes, specifically mentions the word "freeware" referring to the way
|GNU Emacs is being distributed and ASKS FOR A PERSONAL DONATION.
|
|Just for the record.
|
|-- Marco


Why not quote what it says, rather than paraphasing it?  Also, this
excerpt is ~90 lines into the "screen", which is a bit more than 2
keystrokes for most of us.   ;-}

enjoy -len

Quote:

	GNU Emacs availability information, 16 Sept 1987
	  Copyright (C) 1986, 1987 Richard M. Stallman

   Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute
   verbatim copies of this document provided that the
   copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved.

 ... Interupt Quote. (text deleted).  Continue Quote:

If you like GNU Emacs, please express your satisfaction with a
donation: send me or the Foundation what you feel Emacs has been worth
to you.  If you are glad that I developed GNU Emacs and distribute it
as freeware, rather than following the obstructive and antisocial
practices typical of software developers, reward me for doing so!

Your donations will help to support the development of more useful
software to be distributed on the same basis as GNU Emacs.  Eventually
we will have a complete imitation of the Unix operating system, called
GNU (Gnu's Not Unix), which will run Unix user programs.  For more
information on GNU, see the file GNU in this directory.


			Richard M Stallman
			Chief GNUisance,
			President of the Free Software Foundation

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