From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
To: rms@gnu.org, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk
Subject: Re: Windows emacs-25.1 i686 vs x86_64?
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 07:15:34 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f1d437b0-2123-84d0-20d5-89f720cae253@dancol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1c3l8t-0007ih-Og@fencepost.gnu.org>
On 11/07/2016 06:43 AM, Richard Stallman wrote:
> [[[ 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. ]]]
>
> > In GNU projects, we typically stop worrying about an underlying
> > platform when its original supplier stops supporting it. For
> > example, Emacs no longer worries about IRIX because SGI stopped
> > supporting IRIX in 2013.
>
> In the GNU Project, the question that matters, for a system version of
> no particular importance to us (such as any version of Windows), is
> whether users care about that version enough to maintain support for
> it. If they do that, we may as well not delete their code
> unless it is getting in the way rather badly.
>
> If we have no direct evidence about whether users care about a certain
> version, by default we can suppose that they won't care about a
> version that is no longer being maintained. But that's not the
> criterion, just a default way to guess.
>
> Given that Windows is so widely used, and that so many users stick to
> old versions of it, it is plausible to me that millions of people
> still use Windows 98. Maybe tens or hundreds of millions.
>
> That number may still be growing. ISTR that even a few years ago
> people were still installing unauthorized copies of Windows 98 on PCs,
> because Microsoft made it harder to install subsequent Windows
> versions. It would not surprise me if Windows 98 was installed on
> millions of new PCs this year.
>
What data would, in principle, convince you otherwise?
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2016-11-05 8:16 ` Windows emacs-25.1 i686 vs x86_64? Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-05 22:26 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-06 3:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-06 8:10 ` Paul Eggert
2016-11-06 15:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-06 16:13 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-11-06 16:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-06 17:01 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-11-06 17:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-06 18:26 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-11-06 18:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-06 19:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-06 20:15 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-11-07 14:40 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-07 15:16 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-08 13:53 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-06 16:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-06 18:50 ` John Wiegley
2016-11-07 14:42 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-06 21:54 ` Paul Eggert
2016-11-06 21:57 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-07 14:43 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-07 15:15 ` Daniel Colascione [this message]
2016-11-07 15:26 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-08 13:53 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-08 14:52 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-08 15:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-09 16:50 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-09 17:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-09 17:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-10 15:19 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-09 7:00 ` martin rudalics
2016-11-15 10:26 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-07 16:34 ` Paul Eggert
2016-11-07 18:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-07 19:02 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-07 19:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-07 21:54 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-07 19:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-07 20:02 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-07 20:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-07 20:22 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-07 20:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-08 3:48 ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-11-08 15:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-07 18:49 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-08 13:55 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-08 14:34 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-06 21:50 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-06 4:13 ` Noam Postavsky
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