From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Achim Gratz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [elpa] Excorporate: Exchange integration package Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2015 07:56:27 +0100 Organization: Linux Private Site Message-ID: <87zj8nh8tg.fsf@Rainer.invalid> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1423465014 11546 80.91.229.3 (9 Feb 2015 06:56:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 06:56:54 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 09 07:56:53 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YKiH5-0005qD-QU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2015 07:56:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59192 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YKiH5-0004Q8-4n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2015 01:56:51 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39907) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YKiGw-0004Ne-H6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2015 01:56:43 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YKiGt-0001il-5S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2015 01:56:42 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:43009) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YKiGs-0001iP-V1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2015 01:56:39 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YKiGp-0005g3-IL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2015 07:56:35 +0100 Original-Received: from p4ff1cdf5.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([79.241.205.245]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 09 Feb 2015 07:56:35 +0100 Original-Received: from Stromeko by p4ff1cdf5.dip0.t-ipconnect.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 09 Feb 2015 07:56:35 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p4ff1cdf5.dip0.t-ipconnect.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:nErOPCHkwIR7h6Ip1uEl3qIkEEU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:182663 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > We generally don't want packages that offer support for > proprietary programs. It's OK for packages to support proprietary > programs "as a side-effect" of supporting something else, but packages > that only support proprietary programs are usually undesirable since > they end up promoting those proprietary programs, which is counter to > the goals of Free Software. > > There can be exceptions (typically support for using Emacs on Windows > and Mac OS X platforms), when we consider that such support will > encourage people to rely on Free Software (e.g. Emacs) more than > it will encourage them to rely on proprietary programs. > > In this case, I think this argument doesn't work, since you can already > use Emacs to access an Exchange server via IMAP (tho that admittedly > only covers some part of the functionality;and I don't know if other > parts can be similarly accessed via other standard protocols or not). In this case (speaking for me anyway), it would promote the use of Emacs over Outlook. The choice of mail server is not mine, but if an alternative MUA supports all necessary functions and I don't bother support with any problems, then I can use something else (at least at the moment). Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Factory and User Sound Singles for Waldorf rackAttack: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfSounds