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From: "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Cc: mathias.dahl@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Interfacing ActiveX/COM-objects "natively" in Emacs
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 22:00:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9b41d48c93314b0c6799e1e979d06615@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01c53303$Blat.v2.4$a73df0a0@zahav.net.il>

>> it has already been decided that Emacs will not get a
>> generic interface to call binary modules, in order not to make it
>> legally feasible to employ it as a tightly coupled component in
>> basically unfree systems.
>
> Richard will have the definitive answer, but I don't think this
> applies to standard components of the OS.

But how can you tell if an object is a standard component in the OS or 
not?  AFAIK anybody can make ActiveX/COM-objects.  Much like shared 
libraries on Unix.

	Jan D.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-03-27 20:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-27 11:21 Interfacing ActiveX/COM-objects "natively" in Emacs Mathias Dahl
2005-03-27 12:18 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-27 13:27   ` Mathias Dahl
2005-03-28 16:26     ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-28 18:38       ` David Kastrup
2005-03-27 19:31   ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-03-27 19:48     ` David Kastrup
2005-03-27 20:00     ` Jan D. [this message]
2005-03-27 21:24       ` Mathias Dahl
2005-03-28  4:20       ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-03-28 10:07         ` David Kastrup
2005-03-28 11:06           ` Mathias Dahl
2005-03-28 14:33             ` Stefan Monnier
2005-03-28 18:42               ` David Kastrup
2005-03-28 21:31           ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-03-29  5:11             ` Jan D.
2005-03-29  8:54               ` David Kastrup
2005-03-28  5:28 ` Peter Lee
2005-03-28 15:53 ` Kai Großjohann
2005-03-28 16:26 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-28 20:15 ` Jérôme Marant

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