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 Mac port Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 01:51:43 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87bn9a8an8.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451371930 23613 80.91.229.3 (29 Dec 2015 06:52:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 06:52:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp, deng@randomsample.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Wiegley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 29 07:52:02 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 1aDo8U-0006cN-Kj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 07:51:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47256 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDo8U-0000DJ-0b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 01:51:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40350) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDo8R-0000Bx-5R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 01:51:55 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDo8Q-0002VZ-At for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 01:51:55 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:49489) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDo8G-0002Tb-70; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 01:51:44 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aDo8F-0004n4-FV; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 01:51:43 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from John Wiegley on Mon, 28 Dec 2015 14:54:36 -0800) 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:197066 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. ]]] > It was my understanding that it is fine to have features that a volunteer is > willing to do the work for, just not to promote features that would make a > non-GNU platform more attractive (such as, by devoting any other resources to > their development, or giving them special status in any way). That is basically right. More precisely, we don't want GNU Emacs to give people any practical reason to prefer some other system to GNU. > If Yamamoto-san is doing the work and giving it to the Emacs project freely, > is there a reason to turn it down? I suppose this is indeed a matter for > Richard to weigh in on. Could someone explain to me, first, what these features do? -- 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.