[colug-432] EMACS Is The Last Operating System

[Tom Hanlon]

All this talk about what to call emacs, reminds me of the great emacs
schism of the 1990's

http://www.jwz.org/doc/lemacs.html

I came in late after the schism had ossified into 2 versions.


On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 1:04 PM, Stephen Potter <spp at unixsa.net> wrote:
> 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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