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RE: Help understanding the URL code


From: Drew Adams
Subject: RE: Help understanding the URL code
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 07:20:50 -0700 (PDT)

> Why.  The product's name is "Emacs".  I don't know of any other
> software whose name is Emacs, so it's unambiguous.

There have been, and perhaps still are, other flavors of Emacs,
besides GNU Emacs.  Emacs predates the creation of GNU.

> But our software's name is not "GNU-Emacs", it's "Emacs" (and
> it's not "GNU Emacs" either, AFAIC).

Really?  To me it is "GNU Emacs".  It is the GNU flavor of Emacs.
Anything else would be misleading, IMO, if not presumptuous.



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