From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: MS-Windows build broken in Fmake_network_process
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:39:35 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k4sssdoo.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <y2vf7ccd24b1003310338rac1bc080i8d594a1d043efd28@mail.gmail.com>
Juanma Barranquero writes:
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:38, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > I fail to see how these #ifdefs should be more annoying than similar
> > ones for Posix systems.
>
> Ah. Because they are *not* for Posix systems, you know.
C'mon, Juanma, don't egg him on. It's not about POSIX vs. non-POSIX,
it's about free vs. non-free, which is long-standing Emacs policy (not
to mention the whole purpose for GNU in the first place).
It is still a good thing to support a bit of freedom in the unfree
world (as long as the net result is more migration from unfree to free
software), and it is still a good thing to provide free software to
people who are sufficiently poor that they remain dependent on Windows
9x systems, and may not be sufficiently literate in English or French
to have easy access to free software advocacy etc. But you have to
balance those somewhat nebulous goods against the costs, which are
non-zero (though IMO they're nowhere near as big as the anti-Windows
activists would have it).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-31 15:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-26 15:22 MS-Windows build broken in Fmake_network_process Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-26 15:48 ` Helmut Eller
2010-03-26 17:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-26 18:05 ` Helmut Eller
2010-03-26 18:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-26 18:17 ` Helmut Eller
2010-03-26 20:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-26 21:14 ` Helmut Eller
2010-03-27 8:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-27 10:09 ` Helmut Eller
2010-03-27 11:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-27 13:56 ` Helmut Eller
2010-03-27 0:48 ` Chong Yidong
2010-03-27 7:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-27 16:49 ` Jason Rumney
2010-03-27 16:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-27 22:28 ` Christoph
2010-03-28 0:12 ` Florian Beck
2010-03-28 0:37 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-03-28 7:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-28 18:55 ` Chong Yidong
2010-03-28 20:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-28 23:23 ` Jason Rumney
2010-03-29 23:39 ` Richard Stallman
2010-03-31 4:57 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-03-31 8:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-31 10:38 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-03-31 11:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-31 15:39 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2010-03-31 16:39 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-03-31 17:30 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-03-31 17:36 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-03-31 18:05 ` OT: (was: MS-Windows build broken in Fmake_network_process) Stefan Monnier
2010-03-31 15:28 ` MS-Windows build broken in Fmake_network_process Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-03-31 16:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-31 16:59 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-03-31 17:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-31 18:08 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-04-06 7:50 ` David Kastrup
2010-04-07 3:21 ` Richard Stallman
2010-04-07 7:59 ` David Kastrup
2010-03-28 0:39 ` Christoph
2010-03-28 7:21 ` Windows 9X compatibility Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-28 14:59 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-03-28 15:24 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-03-28 15:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-28 16:09 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-03-28 18:03 ` joakim
2010-03-29 23:39 ` Richard Stallman
2010-03-28 19:57 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-03-28 20:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-28 22:26 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-03-28 19:27 ` Christoph
2010-03-28 20:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-28 21:04 ` Christoph
2010-03-28 7:17 ` Windows 9X compatibility (was: MS-Windows build broken in Fmake_network_process) Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-28 7:33 ` MS-Windows build broken in Fmake_network_process Jason Rumney
2010-03-28 8:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-29 23:39 ` Richard Stallman
2010-03-28 9:11 ` Serious performance problem with process output on Mac OSX Christian Lynbech
2010-03-28 14:41 ` Adrian Robert
2010-03-29 21:58 ` Adrian Robert
2010-03-29 23:26 ` David Reitter
2010-03-29 23:54 ` Chong Yidong
2010-03-30 7:43 ` Adrian Robert
2010-03-30 13:05 ` David Reitter
2010-03-30 17:39 ` Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong
2010-03-30 17:47 ` Chong Yidong
2010-03-31 2:38 ` Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong
2010-03-31 4:00 ` Chong Yidong
2010-03-31 13:41 ` Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong
2010-03-31 14:28 ` Chong Yidong
2010-03-31 14:29 ` Adrian Robert
2010-03-29 23:48 ` MS-Windows build broken in Fmake_network_process Davis Herring
2010-03-30 5:41 ` Jason Rumney
2010-03-26 23:03 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-03-27 0:51 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2010-03-27 8:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-27 13:01 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-03-27 13:18 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-03-28 17:29 ` Kim F. Storm
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