Re: Meanness

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
> Cc: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:51:11 +0200
> 
> The issue is not what software other people should be using, but
> rather what software the GNU project should be working on and
> support.

I am a volunteer working on several GNU projects on my own free time.
As long as the GNU Project is happy with my contributions, so am I.
But while I don't request any special gratitude for my contributions,
neither do I expect to be judged, morally or ethically, by those who
receive these contributions.  If the GNU Project wants my
contributions, it will have to accept the fact that I'm a package deal
(like everybody else): my contributions come together with my views
and with the platforms on which I work (which include GNU/Linux, btw).

> Improving "Emacs on Windows" is not the same as improving
> Emacs because Emacs is targeted as a component of the GNU system.

Most of my contributions improved Emacs on all platforms.

> Supporting Emacs on Windows is at best orthogonal to that goal.

No, it is but one way of improving Emacs, so it's more close to being
collinear than to orthogonal.