From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Webapp/Plugin Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2012 19:06:45 +0900 Message-ID: <878vdv6kei.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1344074813 10213 80.91.229.3 (4 Aug 2012 10:06:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2012 10:06:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Paul Michael Reilly , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 04 12:06:53 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SxbG0-0007RW-TF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Aug 2012 12:06:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46561 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SxbFz-00085x-VF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Aug 2012 06:06:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:47314) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SxbFx-00085h-Lp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Aug 2012 06:06:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SxbFw-0003ei-KQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Aug 2012 06:06:49 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp11.dentaku.gol.com ([203.216.5.73]:39661) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SxbFw-0003eV-BP; Sat, 04 Aug 2012 06:06:48 -0400 Original-Received: from 218.33.195.114.eo.eaccess.ne.jp ([218.33.195.114] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp11.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) (envelope-from ) id 1SxbFu-0008Ns-Mz; Sat, 04 Aug 2012 19:06:46 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C12F8DFF4; Sat, 4 Aug 2012 19:06:45 +0900 (JST) System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun, 29 Jul 2012 21:47:32 -0400") Original-Lines: 23 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV GOL (outbound) X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 203.216.5.73 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:152167 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > Using Emacs on a nonfree system is bad, but nothing new. Turning > Emacs into an extension for a nonfree browser would be a big change > for the worse. We will try to prevent that. Wait ... "nonfree browser" ... you mean chrome? My understanding was that although binary distributed by google wasn't free, because it includes various bells and whistles implemented with non-free libraries (e.g. video decoding ...?), the guts of the browser _is_ actually free software, and a completely free version of it exists ("chromium", which is in debian) which simply omits the non-free bells and whistles. I've tried both, and didn't notice any obvious difference between them, so I'm not really sure what exactly the bells-and-whistles consists of... I don't know how the difference between the free and non-free versions affects plugins though... -miles -- Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.