From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Meanness Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:59:45 +0300 Message-ID: References: <20080726081019.GB1419@muc.de> <853alw3aq8.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1217091609 6928 80.91.229.12 (26 Jul 2008 17:00:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:00:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 26 19:00:58 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KMn8c-0004iR-98 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:00:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38168 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KMn7i-0005dp-Fb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:00:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KMn7Z-0005XB-MV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:59:53 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KMn7Y-0005Vj-KT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:59:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43189 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KMn7Y-0005VQ-DM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:59:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout3.012.net.il ([84.95.2.7]:43550) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KMn7T-0005FX-2V; Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:59:47 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.123.9]) by i_mtaout3.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0K4M00BYDHVP3XO2@i_mtaout3.012.net.il>; Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:59:50 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <853alw3aq8.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:101544 Archived-At: > From: David Kastrup > Cc: "Eli Zaretskii" , 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.