Re: Norton Commander?

[Mathieu Roy <yeupou gnu org>]

Daniel Hedblom <hedblom djupo com> a tapoté :

> Why arent there any references to Norton Commander, the application
> that Midnight Commander stems from? I use MC because i have used NC
> since its first version on DOS long ago. I think it would be fair to
> atleast reference Nortons application since that in its time was
> groundbreaking. When i found MC in linux i akmost jumped of joy since
> i could do everything without any hassle whatsoever since MC is almost
> identical to NC.

Unfortunately, Norton company makes proprietary, not free software. If
nc was free, no mc would probably ever exists.

The GNU project avoid as possible to incitate people to use
proprietary software, and adding references to a company that makes
lot of proprietary software can be taken as such an incitation. 

And mc is GNU mc.

See www.gnu.org

Regards,

-- 
Mathieu Roy
 
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