From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Would there be a drawback of using the same graphical toolkit on every platform? Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2022 13:55:24 +0300 Message-ID: References: <83tucvz53x.fsf@gnu.org> <875ypaebhr.fsf@zoho.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="4659"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.2.0 (2022-02-12) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 20 12:04:29 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nLk0z-0000zx-2K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2022 12:04:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56814 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nLk0x-00017U-P8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2022 06:04:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:39458) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nLjwc-00017I-3Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2022 05:59:58 -0500 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:45303) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nLjwa-00045u-F4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2022 05:59:57 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.239.4.74]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 0000000000087C38.0000000062121F28.00003110; Sun, 20 Feb 2022 03:59:51 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <875ypaebhr.fsf@zoho.eu> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -17 X-Spam_score: -1.8 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.8 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_SBL=0.141, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:136040 Archived-At: * Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [2022-02-20 01:31]: > Jean Louis wrote: > > > That means on Unix-like systems. It is better expressed that > > way. GNU is Not Unix, true, though it is very much > > Unix-like, such systems are mentioned as Unices if > > I remember well. > > But that is a formal distinction: > > A Unix-like (sometimes referred to as UN*X or *nix) > operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to > a Unix system, although not necessarily conforming to or > being certified to any version of the Single UNIX > Specification. [1] > > But I don't care about that. And for good reason, because in > terms of technology a random Linux distribution found on > DistroWatch.com [2] is as much Unix as anything else. You can call it as you wish. Majority of people don't even know that there is operating system inside, they call it computer and that's it. They need not care as they belong in the group that does not see or maybe don't want to see distinctions. Though operating system makers and authors, they know that A is not B. > I played ice hockey for more than a decade. I didn't wear > a helmet a single time. But the IIHF says all players should > wear helmets. That means it wasn't ice hockey, what I took > part in was an "ice hockey-like sport". See? The absence of > a helmet _is_ what "breaks" it! Exactly, those are rules of the game. You can play a game by not following rules, it will not be counted. This is because of the agreements between people. -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/