From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A new collaborative editing package (maybe tangent) Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2024 23:28:22 -0500 Message-ID: References: <3E633CB5-B727-4933-8CF1-E1044CF39E70@gmail.com> <402A5724-BDDC-49A3-BE51-E122FB05D494@gmail.com> <87wmspwmiw.fsf@web.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="15412"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: casouri@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 07 05:29:05 2024 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 1rMKmX-0003nQ-9h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 07 Jan 2024 05:29:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rMKls-0000OP-Vs; Sat, 06 Jan 2024 23:28:25 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rMKls-0000OF-4V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Jan 2024 23:28:24 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rMKlr-0005GC-Sl; Sat, 06 Jan 2024 23:28:23 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=3+9GwJ98/8niL4QItTS+AR3vMxOeHpxEcEZ/FT4ZSEw=; b=WNVrWWJN+GOK TUythO79dedpLU7b1g6JTWrq9goaEOlJn4Csk2m9oIWOXF+kXZLHDWrLKkr6EDFlfTCBe8/Nn+j2p zH1lh8M3XiT6QVjQG4jLCm/Dw1f2jyKKKvRaWh2psPCo/Bv3K3gk1VRsGc1w35Pi23Ba4azapYPl5 m218PvCkqfmbK7yXvdUDqBKrBP6zKvzEHERLVfErqcQp25F9hQXqTAkJFU8il07Uln9auv5OK66UW uPmyfX0zEGfb/Ew8xe1FLLoZnBaS60JzaX91FBwnMXWKeVaNmuQUFYUp/7hKDkZDS+FERa9GnH1XG cKJPMrai2k1V/ERm7DU3gg==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rMKlq-0002WO-6h; Sat, 06 Jan 2024 23:28:22 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87wmspwmiw.fsf@web.de> (arne_bab@web.de) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:314662 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. ]]] > > For instance, is this the right protocol to use? > > Do we want to base communication on this protocol? > The decision for OT seems to already be taken and may not be easy to > change midflight, We have not made any decision about whether Emacs should use OT or CRDG. Each option is still open, and so _perhaps_ is the option of supporting both. However, your response is an example of what I have called "inertia" -- it illustrates why we should decide carefully about that issue before taking steps that would tend to turn into a commitment. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)