From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thomas Lord Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Release plans Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:24:51 -0700 Message-ID: <48A11093.2020407@emf.net> References: <570553.73339.qm@web95014.mail.in2.yahoo.com> <20080731093022.GB2886@muc.de> <20080801153128.GB13919@muc.de> <20080802171212.GA2138@muc.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1218512142 1141 80.91.229.12 (12 Aug 2008 03:35:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:35:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Alan Mackenzie , dhruva@ymail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 12 05:36:33 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KSkgR-0002yk-8r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:36:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42493 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KSkfV-0005iF-4x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:35:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KSkfQ-0005iA-W9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:35:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KSkfO-0005fL-Im for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:35:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55133 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KSkfO-0005er-6G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:35:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.42inc.com ([205.149.0.25]:50089) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (SSL 3.0:RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA1:24) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KSkfJ-0005JR-Gz; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:35:21 -0400 X-TFF-CGPSA-Version: 1.5 X-TFF-CGPSA-Filter-42inc: Scanned X-42-Virus-Scanned: by 42 Antivirus -- Found to be clean. Original-Received: from [69.236.75.7] (account lord@emf.net HELO [192.168.1.64]) by mail.42inc.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.13) with ESMTPA id 36703497; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:35:07 -0700 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060808) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:102311 Archived-At: Richard M. Stallman wrote: > Borrowing notions from chess, you're talking about winning by direct > attack, possibly with brilliant sacrifices along the way, while I see > things more as a positional game, accumulating small advantages, > manoevring against enemy weaknesses. You're Mikhail Tal, I'm Jos?é > Capablanca. ;-) > > Your statement assumes both approaches can/do lead to victory. > That is precisely what I am not sure of. > > One person posted here saying that running Emacs on Windows led him to > drop Windows for GNU/Linux. In that case, the Windows support in > Emacs did lead to victory. Perhaps it has done so in other cases too. > If so, maybe it is effective. > > But just using Emacs and other free programs on Windows is not > victory. > RMS, you spend a lot of effort thinking about what programs to not write. (Just an observation.) -t >