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Re: Debian GNU/w32, may ready to be started?



Craig Dickson <crdic@yahoo.com> writes:

> > Last I heard, RMS really hates the moniker "win32" because it has
> > the string "win" in it, implying that there's something winning
> > about Windows.  I suspect he'd like w32 better than win32 for
> > what that's worth.
> 
> During Emacs 20 development, rms insisted on changing all the elisp
> win32-* variables to w32-* for precisely that reason, so it seems he's
> happy with w32.

My concern isn't the "w32", it's about "GNU/w32" as a whole.  RMS
doesn't accept GNU/AIX either, I think.

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