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: redisplay system of emacs Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 06:46:31 -0500 Message-ID: References: 87zl3xjbzp.fsf@lola.goethe.zz <4B633B7C.8030700@gmx.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1264852041 6145 80.91.229.12 (30 Jan 2010 11:47:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:47:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: grischka Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 30 12:47:18 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NbBnJ-00043K-Cv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:47:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41136 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NbBnI-0007ja-Sc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 06:47:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NbBmb-0007Oj-UR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 06:46:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56041 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NbBmb-0007OL-GM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 06:46:33 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NbBma-0007ev-7h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 06:46:33 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:53293) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NbBmZ-0007el-Mn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 06:46:31 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NbBmZ-0000i8-76; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 06:46:31 -0500 In-reply-to: <4B633B7C.8030700@gmx.de> (message from grischka on Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:48:12 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:120687 Archived-At: Emacs is contributing in the sense of providing a swiss knife to produce free software, but not in the sense of being free software. You are factually mistaken. Emacs is free software, and people take advantage of that freedom with their modified versions. The term "ecosystem" is best avoided because it supposes an amoral stance. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html for the explanation.