From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Stephen Eilert <spedrosa@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs on OS X development
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:11:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1R43Il-0003Qt-2H@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGKSFXY8BNBejSF6Mphc7TS9yRUxeT=4WfJtd+hz0QqHoAKNMg@mail.gmail.com> (message from Stephen Eilert on Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:30:07 -0300)
> GNU Emacs is part of the GNU system, and our motto is.
> "It runs best on GNU."
>
>
Why have the ports been merged then?
Why not? Our motto isn't "It runs only on GNU."
Following this reasoning, people who
wanted to run it on other operating systems would have to maintain their own
patches, therefore not wasting FSF resources.
You may be mistaken about what our line of reasoning is. It does not
lead to that conclusion.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
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Thread overview: 135+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-12 4:06 Emacs on OS X development Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-12 7:23 ` Rasmus
2011-09-12 7:59 ` Glenn Morris
2011-09-13 16:37 ` Adrian Robert
2011-09-13 17:51 ` John Wiegley
2011-09-13 18:27 ` Glenn Morris
2011-09-13 18:43 ` John Wiegley
2011-09-13 18:56 ` Glenn Morris
2011-09-13 19:19 ` David Reitter
2011-09-14 1:13 ` Leo
2011-09-14 1:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-07-13 0:23 ` John Wiegley
2012-07-13 0:57 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2012-07-13 1:18 ` chad
2012-07-13 1:07 ` chad
2012-07-13 3:12 ` John Wiegley
2012-07-20 13:51 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-07-21 9:40 ` Pavlo Martynenko
2012-07-21 14:02 ` Michael Albinus
2012-07-24 6:39 ` Pavlo Martynenko
2012-07-25 13:11 ` Michael Albinus
2012-07-21 16:53 ` chad
2012-07-24 13:04 ` Pavlo Martynenko
2012-07-24 14:45 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-07-25 3:00 ` John Wiegley
2012-07-25 14:41 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-07-26 22:58 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2012-07-29 17:58 ` Donald Curtis
2012-07-29 22:31 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-07-30 0:04 ` Óscar Fuentes
2012-07-30 3:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-07-30 4:48 ` Óscar Fuentes
2012-07-30 5:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-07-30 22:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-07-30 23:01 ` Paul Eggert
2012-07-31 1:38 ` Óscar Fuentes
2012-07-31 13:50 ` Nix
2012-07-31 15:58 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-08-02 5:16 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2012-08-03 21:15 ` Dave Abrahams
2012-07-31 18:31 ` Adrian Robert
2012-08-03 20:08 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-08-03 20:28 ` Adrian Robert
2012-08-05 12:51 ` Jan Djärv
2012-12-21 17:20 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-12-23 14:50 ` Jan Djärv
2012-12-24 0:23 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2012-12-24 10:22 ` Jan Djärv
2012-07-25 7:17 ` chad
2012-07-27 12:17 ` Pavlo Martynenko
2012-07-22 9:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-07-22 22:16 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2012-07-23 7:26 ` Ivan Andrus
2012-07-23 8:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-07-23 13:52 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2012-07-23 19:45 ` John Wiegley
2012-07-23 20:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-07-23 23:12 ` John Wiegley
2012-07-23 20:20 ` Paul Eggert
2012-07-23 23:13 ` John Wiegley
2012-07-23 20:46 ` Jan Djärv
2012-07-23 21:17 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2012-07-23 21:28 ` Jan Djärv
2012-07-23 23:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-07-24 6:25 ` Jan Djärv
2012-07-24 8:36 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2012-07-25 7:27 ` Jan Djärv
2012-07-25 8:15 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2012-07-24 9:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-07-25 7:38 ` Jan Djärv
2012-07-24 16:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-07-25 7:43 ` Jan Djärv
2012-07-23 23:15 ` John Wiegley
2012-07-23 23:40 ` chad
2012-07-23 21:45 ` chad
2012-07-23 23:00 ` John Wiegley
2012-07-24 1:13 ` Leo
2012-07-23 18:57 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-07-13 3:28 ` Le Wang
2012-07-13 10:02 ` Jan Djärv
2012-07-13 10:45 ` Ivan Andrus
2012-07-14 8:39 ` Jan Djärv
2012-07-13 12:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-07-13 14:00 ` René Kyllingstad
2012-07-13 17:48 ` John Wiegley
2012-07-13 18:16 ` Jan Djärv
2012-07-13 19:07 ` Glenn Morris
2012-07-13 19:54 ` John Wiegley
2012-07-13 20:12 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2012-07-13 20:32 ` Ivan Andrus
2012-07-13 21:04 ` John Wiegley
2012-07-13 21:44 ` chad
2012-07-13 22:30 ` John Wiegley
2012-07-14 10:35 ` Sudish Joseph
2012-07-14 9:00 ` Jan Djärv
2012-07-14 22:56 ` John Wiegley
2012-07-15 0:54 ` Chong Yidong
2012-07-15 2:45 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2012-07-15 3:40 ` John Wiegley
2012-07-15 13:12 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2012-07-15 17:50 ` chad
2012-07-15 21:20 ` Donald Curtis
2012-07-15 21:34 ` Donald Curtis
2012-07-15 22:11 ` chad
2012-07-15 22:22 ` David Reitter
2012-07-18 0:16 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2012-07-18 2:56 ` John Wiegley
2012-07-18 3:42 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2012-07-18 8:21 ` Pavlo Martynenko
2012-07-18 20:43 ` Donald Curtis
2012-07-18 21:03 ` chad
2012-07-19 8:12 ` Jan Djärv
2012-07-18 17:19 ` Richard Stallman
2012-07-19 13:31 ` Pavlo Martynenko
2012-07-15 22:19 ` David Reitter
2012-07-16 2:20 ` Richard Stallman
2012-07-17 10:18 ` Pavlo Martynenko
2012-07-17 12:14 ` William Stevenson
2012-07-15 21:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-07-13 17:48 ` John Wiegley
2011-09-14 2:21 ` chad
2011-09-14 3:00 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-14 12:54 ` Jan D.
2011-09-13 19:51 ` Jan Djärv
2011-09-13 19:57 ` Adrian Robert
2011-09-13 20:33 ` Jan Djärv
2011-09-13 20:05 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-13 21:47 ` John Wiegley
2011-09-14 1:59 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-14 2:09 ` John Wiegley
2011-09-14 14:10 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-14 14:30 ` Stephen Eilert
2011-09-14 18:06 ` Glenn Morris
2011-09-15 4:11 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2012-07-13 1:14 ` Samuel Bronson
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