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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Geoffrey Teale <tealeg@member.fsf.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: visualization of CVS commits
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:36:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <85d4m5jral.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uskv1e7p7.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:38:12 +0300")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:44:07 +0200
>> From: Geoffrey Teale <tealeg@member.fsf.org>
>> 
>> > I am not sure, but isn't the version of Flash supported by the Gnash
>> > player reasonably documented?
>> 
>> To draw an analogy: OpenOffice.org exists therefore it is OK to  
>> distribute emacs documents in MS Word format.
>> 
>> Some people may agree with that statement, I for one do not.
>
> Why not?  I thought a format was only bad if its details were kept
> secret.

I think you and he are placing your focus on different sides of the
"analogy".

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum




  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-25 18:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-24  6:01 visualization of CVS commits Werner LEMBERG
2008-06-24 17:37 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-24 19:29   ` Paul R
2008-06-25 15:24     ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-25 15:38       ` David Kastrup
2008-06-25 15:44         ` Geoffrey Teale
2008-06-25 17:37           ` David Kastrup
2008-06-25 20:50             ` James Cloos
2008-06-25 23:26               ` Thomas Lord
2008-06-26 21:21                 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-26  7:47             ` Geoffrey Teale
2008-06-25 17:38           ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-25 18:36             ` David Kastrup [this message]
2008-06-26 21:21             ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-27  8:50               ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-27  9:08                 ` David Kastrup
2008-06-27 15:38                 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-25 17:12         ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-26 21:21         ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-25 17:07       ` Paul R
2008-06-26 21:21         ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-27  0:47           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-06-27  1:13             ` Nick Roberts
2008-06-27  1:35             ` Thomas Lord
2008-06-27 15:38               ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-27 19:56                 ` Thomas Lord
2008-06-28 13:20                   ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-27  6:09             ` David Kastrup
2008-06-27  7:26             ` Paul R
2008-06-27 15:38             ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-27  6:32           ` tomas
2008-06-27 15:38             ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-27 19:48               ` Thomas Lord

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