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new ways to think about Emacs
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and ways to extend it, enhance it,
and to use the Emacs source code
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uh, for better or worse.
:17:09
But in the evening,
he was busily working on this compiler,
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and he had not yet released it to the public,
:17:16
so he was uh, being a little bit uh,
careful about
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who, who got to see the source code.
:17:23
But I was very eager,
and when he first announced it in June,
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I downloaded it immediately.
:17:29
I, I played with it.
:17:31
I got some, some pointers from him.
:17:34
And when I sent the source code back to him,
:17:36
he was very,
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uh, actually amazed that how quickly
I was able to ramp up on his technology.
:17:43
Whenever we worked on something
at Stanford or in the university,
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Whenever we worked on something
at Stanford or in the university,
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we would get, mostly at the time
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we were working off machines
from Digital Equipment or Sun, mostly Sun.
:17:57
Whenever we would get a Sun machine,
:17:59
the first thing we would do is
we would spend literally days
:18:04
downloading GNU free software from the Internet,
:18:09
building it and installing it on that Sun machine.
:18:12
The crucial thing about GNU is that
it's free software.
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And Free Software refers not to price,
but to freedom.
:18:21
So think of free speech, not free beer.
:18:25
The freedoms that I am talking about
:18:28
are the freedoms to make changes if you want to,
:18:32
or hire somebody else to make changes for you
:18:35
if you're using a software for your business,
:18:38
to redistribute copies,
to share with other people,
:18:42
and to make improvements and publish them
:18:46
so that other people can
get the benefit of them, too.
:18:49
And those are the freedoms that distinguish
free software from non-free software.
:18:54
These are the freedoms that
enable people to form a community.
:18:59
If you don't have all these freedoms,