[colug-432] EMACS Is The Last Operating System

Stephen Potter spp at unixsa.net
Wed Jun 17 13:04:07 EDT 2015


On 6/17/2015 12:50 PM, jep200404 at columbus.rr.com wrote:
> Is it ok to say just EMACS, or must one say Gnu/EMACS?

It must be GNU Emacs, because Emacs is part of the GNU program.  The 
Linux kernel is not part of GNU program (GNU Hurd is), so it is 
GNU/Linux to show the combination of the GNU program with the Linux kernel.

rms is very precise on how things need to be referenced...

-spp


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