GNU Emacs availability information, 22 Nov 1985 Copyright (C) 1985 Richard M. Stallman Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies of this document provided that the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved. GNU Emacs is legally owned by me, Richard Stallman, its author, but I regard myself actually as its custodian on behalf of the public, since all software ought to be the common property of mankind. I permit everyone to have and run copies of GNU Emacs, at no charge, and to redistribute copies under certain conditions which are designed to make sure that that all modified versions of GNU Emacs remain as free as the versions I distribute. These conditions are stated in the document "GNU Emacs General Public License", a copy of which is required to be distributed with every copy of GNU Emacs. It is usually in a file named COPYING in the same directory as this file. 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Since I must avoid reading Unix source code, I cannot even guess what such problems may exist. GNU Emacs is distributed with no warranty (see the General Public License for full details), and neither I nor the Free Software Foundation promises any kind of support or assistance to users. The foundation keeps a list of people who are willing to offer support and assistance for hire. We will list anyone who pays a $50 listing fee. However, I plan to continue to improve GNU Emacs and keep it reliable, so please send me any complaints and suggestions you have. I will probably fix anything that is clearly (to me) a malfunction. I may make an improvement if I consider it worth the effort, but you should not be surprised if I don't think I can spare time for it. I hope to keep Emacs stable now, and avoid putting much time into it, so I can work on other parts of the GNU system. 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Eventually we will have a complete imitation of the Unix operating system, called GNU (Gnu's Not Unix), which will run Unix user programs. For more information on GNU, see the file GNU in this directory. Richard M Stallman Chief GNUisance, President of the Free Software Foundation Free Software Foundation Order Form March 26, 1986 All software and publications are distributed with permission to copy and redistribute. Quantity Price Item ________ $150 GNU Emacs source code, on a 1600bpi industry standard mag tape in tar format. The tape also contains MIT Scheme (a dialect of Lisp), hack (a rogue-like game) and bison (a compatible replacement for yacc). ________ $15 GNU Emacs manual. This includes a reference card. These manuals are phototypeset and offset printed. We may have both plastic ring binding and standard paperback book binding. 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