From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] system-type cygwin with window-system w32 Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:45:28 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <877h7frywn.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <4E2377E2.1020804@gmail.com> <4E23DA4A.1080301@gmail.com> <4E23FFB4.1040809@gmail.com> <4E240FC5.3050509@gmail.com> <4E24B282.209@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1311029164 25570 80.91.229.12 (18 Jul 2011 22:46:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 22:46:04 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 19 00:46:01 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QiwZc-0004fW-QK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:46:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40440 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QiwZb-0005X9-Vb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 18:46:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:58141) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QiwZN-0005Wp-Ap for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 18:45:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QiwZM-0003e0-D1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 18:45:45 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:44487) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QiwZM-0003dw-4T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 18:45:44 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QiwZK-0004YL-4T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:45:42 +0200 Original-Received: from p508ec355.dip.t-dialin.net ([80.142.195.85]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:45:42 +0200 Original-Received: from dak by p508ec355.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:45:42 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p508ec355.dip.t-dialin.net 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/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:V+ge2vWy8axoKbEbpA/O1G9qNWI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:142143 Archived-At: Daniel Colascione writes: > On 7/18/2011 3:08 PM, Richard Stallman wrote: >> I don't recall that discussion. Can we reopen it? According to [1], >> Windows 98 has a market share of 0.03%. >> >> That must be hundreds of thousands of people. > > ~300,000 if we assume 1 billion people worldwide. That's still > miniscule in proportion --- and of those 300,000, how many are savvy > enough to be Emacs users? > > If there _are_ any remaining Windows 9X Emacs users, dropping 9X > support will be doing them a favor: using an OS that doesn't receive > security updates is terribly dangerous. Why? Not every computer is used for browsing the internet. -- David Kastrup