[ale] Richard Stallman at the University of Georgia

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Wed Oct 15 15:00:14 EDT 2014


Vim is the libre version. The original vi was licensed under non-gnu
friendly terms. And vim is a vast improvement.
On Oct 15, 2014 1:50 PM, "Paul Cartwright" <pbcartwright at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10/15/2014 11:51 AM, Charles Shapiro wrote:
> >
> > Also featured: an appearance by Saint IGNUcius (
> > https://stallman.org/saint.html ) to general hilarity.  The Saint
> > officially declared that vi is Not Sinful as long as you are using a
> > libre version (e.g. Vim).  During the Q/A period one of our own (
> > Avery!) asked about Emacs Evil, but the Saint seemed unfamiliar with
> > that vi emulator which runs on emacs.
> help me out here... libre version , Vim??
> my current testing version of fedora shows:
> vim-X11.x86_64                           2:7.4.475-2.fc21
> updates-testing
>
> is that good or bad??
>
> sorry I missed it! ( the talk, that is..)
>
> --
> Paul Cartwright
> Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587
>
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