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: Emacs on OS X development Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:11:51 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1316059928 18126 80.91.229.12 (15 Sep 2011 04:12:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 04:12:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stephen Eilert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 15 06:12:04 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R43Ix-0004Ga-Fd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 06:12:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40688 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R43It-0002cu-Rh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:11:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:55050) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R43Ip-0002ST-Ul for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:11:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R43Il-0003nl-MH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:11:52 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:38160) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R43Il-0003nh-Kk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:11:51 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R43Il-0003Qt-2H; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:11:51 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stephen Eilert on Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:30:07 -0300) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:144051 Archived-At: > 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 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use free telephony http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/