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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