Re: manual activism (was: Re: no C-h i m emacs ??)

[Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro]

Em Tue, 18 Nov 2014 03:49:20 +0100
Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> escreveu:

> Anyway, I have some book-creating skills, both groff
> and LaTeX and the physical side to it. So, can I print
> the Emacs or Gnus manual, make a book of it, and then
> take it to the libraries of my city and insist they
> put it somewhere so people can borrow it?

Better yet: buy copies from the FSF and donate to the nearest library.
That way you supports it in developing GNU and promoting software
freedom, while helping your neighbors who prefer a paper book or
don't know that 

  sudo apt-get install emacs24-common-non-dfsg

will solve their problems.  Of course, they could be afraid of
"non-free" repositories or not have the wisdom to differentiate what's
really free from what's not.

Ps: Debian's craziness goes to the length of classifying GNU manuals
the same as proprietary software, conflating both in the same infamous
repository. :-(  That's another reason for GNU to rule the world! ;-)

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