From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Uwe Siart Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: 23.1.94; pretest windows binaries Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 06:29:45 +0200 Organization: Technische =?iso-8859-1?Q?Universit=E4t_M=FCnchen?= Message-ID: <87wrwt5d1i.fsf@siart.de> References: <874ojxkc05.fsf@gmail.com> <4BB26D28.8060703@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1270009780 12097 80.91.229.12 (31 Mar 2010 04:29:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 04:29:40 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 31 06:29:35 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NwpYa-0007Bj-MW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 06:29:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42459 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NwpYa-00074G-4D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:29:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NwpYV-00072m-H3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:29:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49664 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NwpYU-00071v-GD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:29:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NwpYT-0004V4-BR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:29:26 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:59089) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NwpYT-0004Uw-4n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:29:25 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NwpYP-00077n-ET for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 06:29:21 +0200 Original-Received: from p4fefe3dd.dip.t-dialin.net ([79.239.227.221]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 06:29:21 +0200 Original-Received: from usenet by p4fefe3dd.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 06:29:21 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p4fefe3dd.dip.t-dialin.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.94 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:NaKoQOCjLXHlIlghgpRpGbXC+hk= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:122955 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > > http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows > > > Awesome!! Thanks alot for your efforts! > > Would you please tone down the enthusiasm? Remember we're talking > about the use of a proprietary operating system with spyware, DRM and > back doors. > > Since Emacs is just an editor, not a god, it cannot do miracles. It > cannot make those problems of Windows disappear. This is all correct. But notice also that there are users who /have/ to use Windows. For them Emacs makes Windows sufferable. Windows without Emacs would be beyond all bearing (by own experience). -- Uwe