From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ramprasad B Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs for Windows? Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 03:45:28 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20060219114528.88902.qmail@web52714.mail.yahoo.com> References: <7eu0axi6bt.fsf@ada2.unipv.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1140355030 2395 80.91.229.2 (19 Feb 2006 13:17:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 13:17:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 19 14:17:08 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FAoR1-0006jO-Dg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Feb 2006 14:17:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FAoMf-0006n5-E6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Feb 2006 08:12:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FAne5-0006E1-31 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Feb 2006 07:26:33 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FAn2Y-0001u0-Cj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Feb 2006 06:47:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FAn0K-0001fP-IM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Feb 2006 06:45:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [206.190.48.237] (helo=web52714.mail.yahoo.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FAn67-0005tF-Qy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Feb 2006 06:51:27 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 88904 invoked by uid 60001); 19 Feb 2006 11:45:28 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=2+iZI4LApuM2J/6R1VnLv/jXERY71SreHiIyOaI8UFVHbWIicR6H3WHy6TSGsJZyfb9fDywfkC9YovdnZJ7glThVBOpPPe1YMUwO2s/FZenHmNENAuJ9NpMaRcExLWA5tq6dU8t30MeQp08aGDeh/zWzNJh7WtvFlNU75tSnRAU= ; Original-Received: from [202.177.174.136] by web52714.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 19 Feb 2006 03:45:28 PST Original-To: Thien-Thi Nguyen In-Reply-To: <7eu0axi6bt.fsf@ada2.unipv.it> X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:33299 Archived-At: --- Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote: > pirsig sez: quality is the moment of perception. Other systems are which are being released early from it's previous releases, quite conforms to the quality. > (you can download and build emacs at whatever frequency surprises you least -- > don't let "officials" of any stripe interfere w/ your emacs enjoyment. ;-) i made this point not for my Emacs enjoyment. If a system is not being released early from it's previous releases, the users (novice / experienced) from FOSS world and proprietary world (more), lose interest in that particular system, because the first impression the user gets is, the system development is not active / outdated. Do we need this ? We need to get more and more users from closed source domain world also. For e.g. If a novice user from proprietary world wants to just taste FOSS world system, he won't be having enough patience as much as experienced FOSS user to get from CVS, compile, etc - the latest version of the system, which is not yet released officially. So, at the first place if we make an good impression of the system, we hit the target half way through in getting more users, especially from proprietary world. My half cents :). -- Ramprasad B __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com