From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Powe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: New Emacs with GTK! Date: 30 Mar 2003 00:52:13 -0500 Organization: The Hospice of the Mind Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87r88piepe.fsf@cecilia.trollope.org> References: <87el4z9t43.fsf@cecilia.trollope.org> <87vfya3vxy.fsf@cecilia.trollope.org> <86adflzuv4.fsf@bigwalter.net> <87llz58tng.fsf@cecilia.trollope.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1049005534 19730 80.91.224.249 (30 Mar 2003 06:25:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 06:25:34 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 30 08:25:33 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18zWG5-000586-00 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 08:25:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18zWG5-0006xF-03 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 01:25:33 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!peernews-us.colt.net!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed2.easynews.com!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!pln-e!spln!dex!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!enews1 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p-030.newsdawg.com X-Home-Page: http://www.trollope.org X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.8.8/GNU Emacs 21.2.1 [Linux 2.4.5] X-PGP: http://www.trollope.org/pgp.txt User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.2 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:111490 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:7990 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:7990 >>>>> "David" == David Kastrup writes: David> Michael Powe writes: >> they do use some gpl (gcc, e.g.) but freebsd'ers are among the >> principal proponents of the "gpl virus" theory. they isolate >> gpl in their dev tree. they often can be found in >> gnu.misc.discuss flaming rms. David> Don't agree. Those that make it a pastime to flame in David> gnu.misc.discuss usually have stopped actively developing David> FreeBSD (if they did so before). And they don't really David> constitute a significant ratio of FreeBSD developers. David> Most serious developers don't have the time to indulge in David> pointless flamewars and trolling, as flaming the GPL on David> gnu.misc.discuss certainly is. no argument there, but gnu is isolated in its own "branch" of the freebsd tree. mp -- Michael Powe Waterbury, CT USA ------------------------------------------------------------------- "It stands to reason that self-righteous, inflexible, single-minded, authoritarian true believers are politically organized. Open-minded, flexible, complex, ambiguous, anti-authoritarian people would just as soon be left to mind their own fucking business." - R.U. Sirius