X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/gnu-emacs/blobdiff_plain/2db38a6f98c2abb42b746064ce97417cccc27e68..12515d890f3c545186e023863e4ee6ba2cc65333:/doc/emacs/gnu.texi diff --git a/doc/emacs/gnu.texi b/doc/emacs/gnu.texi index 8c2f0a740e..282d24d5bb 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/gnu.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/gnu.texi @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -@c Copyright (C) 1985, 1986, 1987, 1993, 1995, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, -@c 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +@c Copyright (C) 1985-1987, 1993, 1995, 2001-2016 Free Software +@c Foundation, Inc. @c @c Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies @c of this document, in any medium, provided that the copyright notice and @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ @c Modified versions may not be made. @ifclear justgnu -@node Manifesto,, Microsoft Windows, Top +@node Manifesto @unnumbered The GNU Manifesto @end ifclear @ifset justgnu @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ our web site, @uref{http://www.gnu.org}. For software tasks and other ways to contribute, see @uref{http://www.gnu.org/help}. @end quotation -@unnumberedsec What's GNU? Gnu's Not Unix! +@unnumberedsec What's GNU@? Gnu's Not Unix! GNU, which stands for Gnu's Not Unix, is the name for the complete Unix-compatible software system which I am writing so that I can give it @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ memory, because they are the easiest machines to make it run on. The extra effort to make it run on smaller machines will be left to someone who wants to use it on them. -To avoid horrible confusion, please pronounce the `G' in the word `GNU' +To avoid horrible confusion, please pronounce the ``G'' in the word ``GNU'' when it is the name of this project. @unnumberedsec Why I Must Write GNU @@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ systems, approved for use in a residential area, and not in need of sophisticated cooling or power. I have found very many programmers eager to contribute part-time work for -GNU. For most projects, such part-time distributed work would be very hard +GNU@. For most projects, such part-time distributed work would be very hard to coordinate; the independently-written parts would not work together. But for the particular task of replacing Unix, this problem is absent. A complete Unix system contains hundreds of utility programs, each of which @@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ and you must charge for the program to support that.'' @end quotation There are various forms of free or very cheap publicity that can be used to -inform numbers of computer users about something like GNU. But it may be +inform numbers of computer users about something like GNU@. But it may be true that one can reach more microcomputer users with advertising. If this is really so, a business which advertises the service of copying and mailing GNU for a fee ought to be successful enough to pay for its @@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ advertising pay for it. On the other hand, if many people get GNU from their friends, and such companies don't succeed, this will show that advertising was not really -necessary to spread GNU. Why is it that free market advocates don't +necessary to spread GNU@. Why is it that free market advocates don't want to let the free market decide this?@footnote{The Free Software Foundation raises most of its funds from a distribution service, although it is a charity rather than a company. If @emph{no one} @@ -549,7 +549,3 @@ this are bureaucracy and isometric struggles against competition. Free software will greatly reduce these drains in the area of software production. We must do this, in order for technical gains in productivity to translate into less work for us. - -@ignore - arch-tag: 21eb38f8-6fa0-480a-91cd-f3dab7148542 -@end ignore