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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Unibyte characters, strings, and buffers
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 22:03:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d2gyfaej.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83sipu9qj3.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 03 Apr 2014 22:11:44 +0300")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> The amount of code borrowed by XEmacs from Emacs is orders of
> magnitude larger than the other way around.  So this is a red herring.

Magnitude does not really matter with "dirty hands".

At any rate, you _are_ aware that Oracle sued Google for billions of
dollars because of what amounted to 11 lines of code?

They did not prevail at the first trial, but Google did not get attorney
costs back, either, and the whole thing went into appeal with murky
outlook.

>> nobody should be blamed for choosing to err on the safe side.
>
> I never blamed anyone.  People should know the true state of affairs,
> and then decide for themselves.

The true state of affairs is that the U.S. legal and political system
does not leave much leeway for paranoia.  It's as bad as imagination
gets.

-- 
David Kastrup



  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-03 20:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 103+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-26 19:04 Buffer-local variables affect general-purpose functions Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-26 19:32 ` Paul Eggert
2014-03-26 20:03   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-26 21:50     ` Paul Eggert
2014-03-27 17:42       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-27 18:55         ` Paul Eggert
2014-03-27 14:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-03-27 17:17   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-27 21:04     ` Stefan Monnier
2014-03-28  7:11       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-28  7:46         ` Paul Eggert
2014-03-28  8:18           ` Unibyte characters, strings and buffers Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-28 18:42             ` Paul Eggert
2014-03-28 18:52               ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-28 19:21                 ` Paul Eggert
2014-03-29  6:40                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-29 18:57                     ` Paul Eggert
2014-03-29 19:46                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-28 20:23                 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-03-29 19:34                 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-03-28 14:12         ` Buffer-local variables affect general-purpose functions Stefan Monnier
2014-03-28  3:38     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-03-28  8:51       ` Unibyte characters, strings, and buffers Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-28 10:28         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-03-28 10:58           ` David Kastrup
2014-03-28 11:22             ` Andreas Schwab
2014-03-28 11:34               ` David Kastrup
2014-03-28 11:42             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-03-28 17:29           ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-28 17:50             ` David Kastrup
2014-03-28 18:31               ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-28 19:25                 ` David Kastrup
2014-03-29  6:43                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-29  7:23                     ` David Kastrup
2014-03-29  8:24                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-29  8:40                         ` David Kastrup
2014-03-29  9:25                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-28 20:27             ` Stefan Monnier
2014-03-29  9:23             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-03-29  9:52               ` Andreas Schwab
2014-03-29 10:48                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-29 11:00                   ` Andreas Schwab
2014-03-29 11:18                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-29 11:30                       ` Andreas Schwab
     [not found]                         ` <83ha6hduzz.fsf@gnu.org>
2014-03-29 14:30                           ` Andreas Schwab
2014-03-29 14:47                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-29 10:42               ` David Kastrup
2014-03-29 11:07                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-29 11:30                   ` David Kastrup
2014-03-29 12:58                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-29 13:15                       ` David Kastrup
2014-03-29 10:44               ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-29 11:06               ` Andreas Schwab
2014-03-29 11:12                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-29 16:11                   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-03-29 15:37                 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-03-29 15:55                   ` David Kastrup
2014-03-29 16:28                     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-03-29 17:00                       ` David Kastrup
2014-03-30  2:05                         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-03-30  9:01                           ` David Kastrup
2014-03-30 12:13                             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-03-30 14:25                             ` Andreas Schwab
2014-03-30 15:05                               ` David Kastrup
2014-03-30 15:39                                 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-03-29 17:08                       ` Andreas Schwab
2014-03-30  0:24                     ` Richard Stallman
2014-03-30  3:32                       ` Stefan Monnier
2014-03-30 15:13                         ` Richard Stallman
2014-03-29 15:58                   ` Andreas Schwab
2014-03-29 16:35                     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-03-29 17:06                       ` Andreas Schwab
2014-03-29 17:01               ` Nathan Trapuzzano
2014-03-29 17:08                 ` Nathan Trapuzzano
2014-03-29 17:18                   ` David Kastrup
2014-03-29 17:33                     ` Nathan Trapuzzano
2014-03-30  0:24                       ` Richard Stallman
2014-03-30  8:38                         ` Andreas Schwab
2014-03-30 15:12                           ` Richard Stallman
2014-03-29 17:16                 ` David Kastrup
2014-03-28 18:45           ` Daniel Colascione
2014-03-28 19:35             ` Glenn Morris
2014-03-29 11:17             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-03-29 11:22               ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-29 16:03                 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-03-31 15:22                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-04-01  3:36                     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-04-01  7:42                       ` David Kastrup
2014-04-01  9:38                         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-04-01 15:19                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-04-01 15:16                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-04-02  4:20                         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-04-02 17:06                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-04-03 10:59                             ` David Kastrup
2014-04-03 16:07                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-04-03 16:26                                 ` David Kastrup
2014-04-03 19:11                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-04-03 20:03                                     ` David Kastrup [this message]
2014-04-04  0:48                                       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-04-04  8:08                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-04-04  7:58                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-04-04 11:40                                     ` Richard Stallman
2014-04-03 13:04                             ` Stephen J. Turnbull

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