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: Release plans Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:41:31 -0400 Message-ID: References: <48A740CB.4050404@emf.net> <20080816213508.GA8530@muc.de> <87hc9ka8eg.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <20080817073124.GA1294@muc.de> <87ljyv5gy5.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <20080818101802.GA2615@muc.de> <87bpzqqk7b.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <20080818210927.GD2615@muc.de> <87wsidnxqp.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87ljytkwpk.fsf@rattlesnake.com> <878wusz0v9.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87vdxp27z6.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87prnxe5hc.fsf@rattlesnake.com> <873aktck5d.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87k5e5dsvq.fsf@rattlesnake.com> <48B44802.1080302@emf.net> <87ej4atczj.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1219977809 23144 80.91.229.12 (29 Aug 2008 02:43:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:43:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bob@rattlesnake.com, lord@emf.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul R Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 29 04:44:23 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 1KYtyF-0001RL-Ul for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:44:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48208 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KYtxG-00038e-Mr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:43:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KYtx4-00030B-7u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:43:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KYtx2-0002ys-Ha for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:43:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35182 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KYtx2-0002yV-7H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:43:04 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:45280) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KYtx1-0005dx-OT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:43:04 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KYtvX-0003ez-Bn; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:41:31 -0400 In-reply-to: <87ej4atczj.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Paul R on Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:33:04 +0200) 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:103124 Archived-At: 2- Banning technical facilities like DLL from free software is likely to leave a clear advantage to proprietary software that use those facilities to provide the best technical solution. Refusing to support DLL does not give an advantage to non-free software. In particular, it does not give XRefractory an advantage over CEDET.