From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs vista build failures Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:28:23 -0400 Message-ID: References: <36366a980807101702r5677d096g8e62ef5b3e278868@mail.gmail.com> <4eb0089f0807121340x5e26f6dbve03ef50b238f3a3a@mail.gmail.com> <87k5fph5rh.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <20080713214648.GB1076@muc.de> <20080714195651.GF3445@muc.de> <487C5FA3.4070603@emf.net> <87zloggji9.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <878wvxxkn6.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87ej5oz4pb.fsf@saeurebad.de> <87vdyzxype.fsf@saeurebad.de> <871w1njq32.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87iquzxgtk.fsf@saeurebad.de> <4884CFEF.8040404@gmail.com> <87ej5nxew2.fsf@saeurebad.de> <87wsje37rg.fsf@saeurebad.de> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216733426 5240 80.91.229.12 (22 Jul 2008 13:30:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:30:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Johannes Weiner Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 22 15:31:14 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 1KLHwc-0002mq-9w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:30:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60727 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLHvj-0002xA-1F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:29:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLHvP-0002hN-4w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:29:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLHvO-0002gA-9H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:29:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47843 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLHvO-0002fx-49 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:29:06 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:57925) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KLHvN-0006Go-Qu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:29:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KLHuh-00079e-2k; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:28:23 -0400 In-reply-to: <87wsje37rg.fsf@saeurebad.de> (message from Johannes Weiner on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:41:39 +0200) 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:101189 Archived-At: > From: Johannes Weiner > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:41:39 +0200 > > What is your point? That if you put politics aside, there's nothing left to make GNU/Linux be much better than Windows. Politics is what makes it stand out. You said: > To be honest, I couldn't give the slightest about w32. It's a pile of > crap that should have never seen the light of day, all political issues > left aside and I, FWIW, would not consider it when designing software. I'm saying that if you put all political issues aside, you are left with no arguments in comparing these two systems.