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



On 26 Nov 2001, Florian Weimer wrote:

>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.

Then drop the GNU.  If it's the FSF's desire to not be represented that 
way, why should we argue?  After all, it's their trademark.

>

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