Re: Debian GNU/w32, may ready to be started?
On Monday 26 November 2001 06:23 pm, John Galt wrote:
> 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.
>
isn't rms's argument for "gnu/linux"t hat the gnu tools & the linux kernel
form a complete opsys? how are gnu tools on top ot win32 any different?
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