From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs as browser (was Re: Concurrency, again) Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 14:04:15 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87wq97i78i.fsf@earlgrey.lan> <83int1g0s5.fsf@gnu.org> <83twckekqq.fsf@gnu.org> <83mvi9a3mh.fsf@gnu.org> <20161012165911.58437154@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <20161012173314.799d1dc5@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <8360owaj2s.fsf@gnu.org> <20161013092701.77461800@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <20161017105345.2f255760@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <83y41nx8l6.fsf@gnu.org> <20161017123459.5ded9408@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <87vawosoul.fsf@elephly.net> <20161019090741.46ea2704@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <20161019163806.7c77f100@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1476986689 10484 195.159.176.226 (20 Oct 2016 18:04:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 18:04:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rekado@elephly.net, jwiegley@gmail.com, eliz@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Perry E. Metzger" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 20 20:04:45 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bxHhj-00018I-UZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2016 20:04:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56442 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bxHhm-0001d8-4v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2016 14:04:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49670) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bxHhb-0001bV-2F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2016 14:04:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bxHha-0003Te-96 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2016 14:04:27 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:49301) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bxHhQ-0003Np-18; Thu, 20 Oct 2016 14:04:16 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bxHhP-0000yX-6S; Thu, 20 Oct 2016 14:04:15 -0400 In-reply-to: <20161019163806.7c77f100@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> (perry@piermont.com) 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: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:208540 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. ]]] > Wayland is on the horizon for Linux. Is Wayland tied specifically to Linux? X doesn't have an infinite > life ahead of it, it dates from the 1980s and the free OS world > is working to move past it (thus Wayland). I suspect that simply > adopting Webkit (which is LGPL already) directly will probably fix > most potential portability problems, since the Webkit people have to > support whatever is used on most platforms already. That seems plausible to me -- provided you really meant "GNU/Linux" in the first line. If it was correct to write "Linux", that implies it is not so portable. -- 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.