From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Interfacing ActiveX/COM-objects "natively" in Emacs Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:26:13 -0500 Message-ID: References: <7dbe73ed05032703218114182@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1112028195 14512 80.91.229.2 (28 Mar 2005 16:43:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 16:43:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 28 18:43:13 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DFxKE-00007S-CP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 18:42:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DFxaJ-0004uW-54 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:59:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DFxUz-0002B8-R9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:53:59 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DFxUk-00026C-Cu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:53:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DFxUj-00022Z-Uk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:53:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DFx49-0003eS-TU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:26:13 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DFx49-0004nN-GW; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:26:13 -0500 Original-To: Mathias Dahl In-reply-to: <7dbe73ed05032703218114182@mail.gmail.com> (message from Mathias Dahl on Sun, 27 Mar 2005 13:21:51 +0200) 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:35257 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:35257 We will not do this, because it would do nothing to make the GNU operating system better. GNU Emacs is a part of the GNU system; its purpose is to be part of the capabilities of the GNU system. Our mission is to replace and eliminate non-free software, not to enhance it. Therefore, the GNU Project's policy is never to include, never to develop, never to recommend, features that would give better support to a non-free system than to the GNU system itself. "It runs best on GNU" is our watchword. You're being led into doing work to attract people into non-freedom by the fact that you're using a non-free operating system yourself. How about switching from MS Windows to the GNU/Linux system, and then working on something analogous for GNOME and Corba?