From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: "Why is emacs so square?" Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 22:03:04 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83zhbcg6s4.fsf@gnu.org> <87r1wng2ki.fsf@linaro.org> <83o8rrenn1.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="130368"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, alex.bennee@linaro.org, ulm@gentoo.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: chad Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 18 04:05:30 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jPcrJ-000XpD-MY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2020 04:05:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53917 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jPcrG-0007xi-MR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 17 Apr 2020 22:05:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53995) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jPcp5-0006lV-CN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Apr 2020 22:03:13 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:50602) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jPcp0-00054Y-CB; Fri, 17 Apr 2020 22:03:06 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jPcoy-0000Iu-1w; Fri, 17 Apr 2020 22:03:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from chad on Thu, 16 Apr 2020 16:23:51 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:247206 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. ]]] > software world has today is Electron (which still doesn't cover everything > emacs supports). Is Electron free software? If so, what is its license, and what does Emacs do that Electron does not support? (If there are lots of things, a few important ones would be enough of an answer.) -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)