From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Release plans Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:45:15 +0200 Message-ID: <87abfbfh90.fsf@ambire.localdomain> References: <20080814083817.GA2593@muc.de> <877iak7xfp.fsf@skyscraper.fehenstaub.lan> <873al79akr.fsf@skyscraper.fehenstaub.lan> <48A5BAD7.8030302@emf.net> <48A740CB.4050404@emf.net> <20080816213508.GA8530@muc.de> <48A78EE4.50802@emf.net> <20080817080126.GB1294@muc.de> <48A86304.3020301@emf.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1219009711 12565 80.91.229.12 (17 Aug 2008 21:48:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:48:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Thomas Lord Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 17 23:49:22 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 1KUq7m-0002vN-Jg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:49:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54335 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KUq6p-0005F6-Ry for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:48:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KUq6l-0005Er-4v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:48:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KUq6i-0005Ef-Iy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:48:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37649 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KUq6i-0005Ec-DT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:48:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [151.61.141.132] (port=59372 helo=ambire.localdomain) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KUq6i-0007Bn-0s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:48:16 -0400 Original-Received: from ttn by ambire.localdomain with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KUq3n-0005P1-P5; Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:45:15 +0200 In-Reply-To: <48A86304.3020301@emf.net> (Thomas Lord's message of "Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:42:28 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:102564 Archived-At: () Thomas Lord () Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:42:28 -0700 Everytime we "ban" a feature from the GNU system because of a defeatist perception of risk, we retreat from the goal of making it economically natural to write new programs as free software programs. That is, we retreat from the goal of software freedom for everyone. Perhaps you are right. Perhaps Emacs is not the proper vehicle. thi