From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Release plans Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:14:16 +0900 Message-ID: <877iacz007.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <48A5BAD7.8030302@emf.net> <48A740CB.4050404@emf.net> <20080816213508.GA8530@muc.de> <87hc9ka8eg.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <20080817073124.GA1294@muc.de> <87ljyv5gy5.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <20080818101802.GA2615@muc.de> <87bpzqqk7b.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <20080818210927.GD2615@muc.de> <87wsidnxqp.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1219212858 13683 80.91.229.12 (20 Aug 2008 06:14:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:14:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, hannes@saeurebad.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 20 08:15:10 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 1KVgyM-0002BK-Ap for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:15:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:32855 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KVgxO-0007Bi-BT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:14:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KVgxK-0007BO-QT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:14:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KVgxI-0007As-Lk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:14:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52866 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KVgxI-0007An-62 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:14:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.223]:48934) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KVgxB-0005aG-52; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:13:57 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id C530A1535A8; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:13:55 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0D6211A25C3; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:14:16 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM ?bug? under XEmacs 21.5.21 (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:102711 Archived-At: Richard M. Stallman writes: > I grant the conceptual possibility that you assert, but I deny > its importance. I claim it is both extremely unlikely to come > to pass, and that we can deal with the process of it arising in > other ways. > No one can tell for certain. The only relevant fact is that the problem > scenario did indeed occur for Linux. Linus invited binary modules, and eventually found it was a bad thing. You would not make that mistake; I don't think the scenarios are the same. > Whether it would happen with Emacs, none of us can determine. That is true. > I have decided not to take the risk. That's a shame for Emacs, and for the free software community, in my opinion.