From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Interfacing ActiveX/COM-objects "natively" in Emacs Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 20:38:28 +0200 Message-ID: References: <7dbe73ed05032703218114182@mail.gmail.com> <7dbe73ed0503270527db7312b@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1112036193 7098 80.91.229.2 (28 Mar 2005 18:56:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 18:56:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Mathias Dahl Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 28 20:56:30 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DFzOM-0000Cp-GX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 20:55:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DFzeV-00012H-DV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 14:11:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DFzbK-0008H8-6q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 14:08:38 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DFzbH-0008FX-IF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 14:08:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DFzbH-00084n-7V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 14:08:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DFz8G-0007h1-5C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 13:38:36 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DFz89-0007GR-Bb; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 13:38:29 -0500 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:26:20 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:35264 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:35264 Richard Stallman writes: > This interests me. Do you have any idea on how to go about doing > something like this as a separate project? > > Please don't. Legally, you're free to do it, but the consequences > of doing it would be harmful to computer users' freedom. > > David, if respond to such an inquiry in the future, would you please > simply omit the mention of that possibility? Ok. I just wanted to avoid the "how unfree!" argument, but definitely any followup to that does not belong on emacs-devel, and so it is not really helpful to start a topic in the first place that has no business here. Sorry for that, I'll keep it in mind. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum