From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org mode moves to GNU emacs core
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2017 13:58:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a84lmmgv.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87bmp1hcla.fsf@openmailbox.org
Adonay Felipe Nogueira <adfeno@openmailbox.org> writes:
> I have just thought of some more advantages and disadvantages too.
>
> * Strengths
>
> ** One less split in development effort
>
> This one explains itself. Also, for a related article against "forking",
> "bundling", and "reinventing the wheel" practices, see
> [[https://wingolog.org/archives/2015/11/09/embracing-conways-law]].
>
> * Threats
>
> ** People who still refuse to contribute to GNU Emacs for some reason
>
> I have seem people making completely separated projects from GNU Emacs
> due to concerns of being required to assign copyright to the
> FSF. However, first and foremost, I must add that I'm in favor of doing
> such assignment, because FSF is a charity organization --- not just a
> non-profit ---, and they, together with other organizations, do
> community-oriented copyleft enforcement, not the
> "average"/"extortion-based" copyleft enforcement.
>
Whoa: some of what you describe exists (see e.g.
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2016/jul/19/patrick-mchardy-gpl-enforcement/),
but it is a distant outlier. Calling it "average" is as inaccurate as
calling Pele an "average" footballer.
--
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-03 17:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-29 8:02 org mode moves to GNU emacs core Uwe Brauer
2017-06-29 8:50 ` Rasmus
2017-06-29 9:18 ` Uwe Brauer
2017-07-03 7:28 ` Bastien
2017-07-03 8:33 ` Uwe Brauer
2017-07-03 12:52 ` qTim Cross
2017-07-03 14:21 ` Uwe Brauer
2017-07-03 22:13 ` Tim Cross
[not found] ` <WM!dafdc952e01c9db7d6439bb691272a1ba664e1bae5ab4554e86ed6b7dfea8661d8bbaf476f3ba9dbb09c0c663c84ecc2!@mailhub-mx5.ncl.ac.uk>
2017-07-04 10:45 ` Phillip Lord
[not found] ` <WM!be0b82133cf58eecb5726e88694e8427b36d27c5719f4dbc8d7da9ca2db24765a0806a2a785dcaaf4a6d56d6bd773dc0!@mailhub-mx1.ncl.ac.uk>
2017-07-04 10:36 ` Phillip Lord
[not found] ` <f53ab9c6e9a440bbb5d939a425a97b62@HE1PR01MB1898.eurprd01.prod.exchangelabs.com>
2017-07-03 8:52 ` Eric S Fraga
2017-07-03 9:20 ` Alan Schmitt
[not found] ` <WM!87da95345c53f08eaef15c5b7433fda36bb968c366f5815f7f948ed74d91e1259bbc88820ebbf91e3556ee6a4a3e9852!@mailhub-mx5.ncl.ac.uk>
2017-07-03 12:10 ` Phillip Lord
2017-07-03 12:40 ` Bastien Guerry
2017-07-03 15:23 ` Robert Horn
2017-07-04 8:01 ` Bastien Guerry
[not found] ` <WM!e5e8b591af401b295776634cbabb0d1b446d7bb568c1f8abadd4637a576ff78bf92ed6ccedeed082b016a3f6c9ad6c12!@mailhub-mx3.ncl.ac.uk>
2017-07-04 9:59 ` Phillip Lord
[not found] ` <6d3b27a9e0b245a49cffa029d13bbdb9@HE1PR01MB1898.eurprd01.prod.exchangelabs.com>
2017-07-03 13:12 ` Eric S Fraga
2017-07-03 13:30 ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2017-07-03 16:52 ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2017-07-03 17:58 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2017-07-03 19:38 ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
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