From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: EmacsW32 invocation options Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 08:09:27 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <85bqgzvm20.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <59osrdF2m97hgU1@mid.individual.net> <4637A396.9000300@gmail.com> <46383B57.6050508@gmail.com> <4638EE03.8000602@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178346852 15054 80.91.229.12 (5 May 2007 06:34:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 06:34:12 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 05 08:34:11 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HkDqM-0005hJ-Q3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 May 2007 08:34:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HkDx4-0006Zv-Os for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 May 2007 02:41:06 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool4.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.98 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:oo9w1lq+RTlsG1AN/ezk0ouEfZY= Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 05 May 2007 08:09:21 CEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: a15f7ae6.newsspool1.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=CM1C]=6L]4C74okIm; ?DS@ic==]BZ:afN4Fo<]lROoRAFl8W>\BH3YB7c^C2\_JNnBCV`H8_`hhQD^9QSCVg3dOFOIC5DBZVJ9K; JYacJ`?3QOM?\F3i4NXfJ Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:148115 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:43714 Archived-At: "Juanma Barranquero" writes: > There are specific limits to that balance. For example, if I'm not > mistaken, RMS forbids changes that would give Emacs an advantage on > Windows over GNU/Linux or other free operating systems. No, he forbids changes that would give Windows an advantage beneath Emacs over GNU/Linux or other free systems. "I would not be using Windows if it were not for Emacs" is no outcome he is interested in. I can follow him on that. I also find it disconcerting if programmers enjoying the benefits of free software don't bother helping anybody else reaping the benefits of benefitting from their adaptations. It always has been one goal of free software to be available to as many people as possible, and the "I cater for myself, let everybody else cater for themselves" stance is not particularly helpful when 90% of potential users are actually using non-free systems. At least I don't care for a "Emacs - best used on Windows" situation. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum