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: What would be the best screenshot of Emacs for the homepage? Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2015 00:03:40 -0500 Message-ID: References: <876105i1yi.fsf@petton.fr> <87wpslglue.fsf@petton.fr> <87io44llid.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1449896640 11806 80.91.229.3 (12 Dec 2015 05:04:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2015 05:04:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: nicolas@petton.fr, emacs-devel@gnu.org, pierre.lecocq@gmail.com, yuri.v.khan@gmail.com To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 12 06:03:55 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a7cLa-0004Fl-35 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Dec 2015 06:03:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50574 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a7cLZ-0003MP-Ef for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Dec 2015 00:03:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35152) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a7cLT-0003Hg-Q3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Dec 2015 00:03:48 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a7cLS-0005jX-UU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Dec 2015 00:03:47 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:39343) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a7cLO-0005dq-D6; Sat, 12 Dec 2015 00:03:42 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1a7cLM-0003wC-Cy; Sat, 12 Dec 2015 00:03:40 -0500 In-reply-to: <87io44llid.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from David Kastrup on Fri, 11 Dec 2015 22:32:10 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:196157 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > So? For one thing, the font rendering will equally well identify a > platform. For another, why _wouldn't_ GNU Emacs promote GNU > environments (GNUstep would be another candidate but it is less > frequently used)? Other platforms are secondary considerations. Why > shouldn't the first priority of a GNU component be GNU? That's a good point. Every GNU package should promote the GNU system itself. We are glad to support running GNU packages on other systems, but the purpose of these packages is to make the GNU operating system (which they are components of) better. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.