Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit (was: comparing code on different branches)

[Filipe Silva <filipe.silva@gmail.com>]

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​I support this, could not agree more.

On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 12:29 PM, John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 7:05 PM, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> I wish someone would write a package comparable to Magit that
>> we could get legal papers for and include it in Emacs.
>>
>
> ​Richard,
>
> I cannot let this go without commenting.  Do you understand what
> you are advocating?
>
> In Jonas you have someone who is doing just about everything
> right per your notion of software freedom including applying gpl v3.
> He has made significant personal sacrifices to provide emacs with
> a package that is unique among editors and IDEs.  It could emerge
> as one of those oh-so-elusive creatures: a true killer app for the
> emacs platform.
>
> Jonas has and continues to deliver a steady stream of features,
> bug fixes and refinements.  Magit is clearly a work of love that is
> wonderfully supported.  Jonas has exhibited admirable project
> leadership skill and has published a detailed, credible map to
> the future:
>
>   https://github.com/magit/magit/projects/1
>
> Some of us care enough about developers like Jonas and the
> value he is delivering to emacs that we have responded to his
> plea for financial support via PayPal, Patreon or Bountysource.
>
> Were Jonas' effort invested in a non-GNU project, or at least not
> one so dear to you heart as emacs, I suspect that you would
> applaud his work.
>
> Instead you seem to advocate undercutting Jonas' efforts with
> no good reason to believe that you would get a replacement of
> anywhere near the same quality.  Further, were you actually to
> mount such a competing effort I am confident that long before it
> ever delivered any useful amount of functionality you, the emacs
> community, and the gnu effort would harvest significant bad press.
>
> Sometimes community might be more important than copyright
> assignment.  Please reconsider you request.
>
> /john
>
>

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