Re: [Miles Bader <address@hidden>] fancy-splash & GNU systems

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Noah Friedman <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 11:39:42 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> >If the problem is only the sentence about Emacs being part of some
> >system, then I'm not sure I understand why do we need to say that on
> >Linux.  If this is somehow important, I agree with Miles that
> >something similar should be said on other systems.
[snip]
> But let me suggest that perhaps the special case is offensive.

What special case?  As far as I could see, I was trying to argue that
the text should be similar on all systems.  And Miles was saying
something similar, unless my command of the English language became
really shabby lately.

> If it were up to me, I would take out the special-cased "Linux-based GNU
> system" and instead put the legend "One component of a free software
> system" and display it on all systems.

Saying that is IMHO useless; we already say that Emacs is Free
Software.  We might as well simply leave it at that.  Which will be
just fine by me, btw.