From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Release plans Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2008 01:46:07 +0200 Message-ID: <4894F1BF.4060907@gmail.com> References: <570553.73339.qm@web95014.mail.in2.yahoo.com> <20080731093022.GB2886@muc.de> <20080801153128.GB13919@muc.de> <20080802171212.GA2138@muc.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1217720829 6702 80.91.229.12 (2 Aug 2008 23:47:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 23:47:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Richard M Stallman , dhruva@ymail.com To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 03 01:47:59 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 1KPQpK-0001f1-Ft for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Aug 2008 01:47:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59887 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KPQoP-0003wx-Ko for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:47:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KPQoL-0003u7-6X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:46:57 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KPQoJ-0003qa-07 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:46:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40536 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KPQoI-0003qI-Ro for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:46:54 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]:48026) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KPQoF-0003vd-Ed; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:46:51 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-151-176.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.151.176]:63857 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KPQoD-00085j-5E; Sun, 03 Aug 2008 01:46:49 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <20080802171212.GA2138@muc.de> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080802-0, 2008-08-02), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.151.176 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KPQoD-00085j-5E. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1KPQoD-00085j-5E 2e9372ca2075cd5dd18d57189b6145c9 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:101977 Archived-At: Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Borrowing notions from chess, you're talking about winning by direct > attack, possibly with brilliant sacrifices along the way, while I see > things more as a positional game, accumulating small advantages, > manoevring against enemy weaknesses. You're Mikhail Tal, I'm José > Capablanca. ;-) I think I really learnt only one thing from chess: do not do any move for just one reason. > I think it would "do you good" to spend a week using only proprietary > software on a Microsoft Windows system; I don't think you're aware of > just how sucky it is. If you were, you'd realise that campaigning on the > basis of software quality in addition to freedom could be effective > indeed. I do not think that is enough. You have to learn from your enemy. Learn from the strength your enemy has.