From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard M Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: visualization of CVS commits Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:21:20 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20080624.080153.252133130.wl@gnu.org> <87vdzyfx7s.fsf@gmail.com> <858wwtle30.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1214515467 1099 80.91.229.12 (26 Jun 2008 21:24:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:24:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tealeg@member.fsf.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 26 23:25:12 2008 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 4.50) id 1KByxl-00062S-98 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:25:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35855 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KBywv-0005cZ-GA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:24:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KByuK-00040c-IA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:21:32 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KByuI-0003yt-Lq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:21:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50097 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KByuI-0003yh-6Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:21:30 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:43184) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KByuH-00005u-V9; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:21:30 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KByu8-0003jH-84; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:21:20 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Eli Zaretskii on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:38:12 +0300) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:99975 Archived-At: Why not? I thought a format was only bad if its details were kept secret. A format is bad if it pressures people into use of non-free software. Secrecy is one reason that might happen, but patents are another. Rapid changes by a company are another. Those two both apply to Flash.