From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Release plans Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:33:20 -0400 Message-ID: References: <570553.73339.qm@web95014.mail.in2.yahoo.com> <20080731093022.GB2886@muc.de> <20080801153128.GB13919@muc.de> <20080802171212.GA2138@muc.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1217727293 19049 80.91.229.12 (3 Aug 2008 01:34:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 01:34:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dhruva@ymail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 03 03:35:44 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 1KPSVb-0004VE-65 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Aug 2008 03:35:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44898 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KPSUg-0006hb-4a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:34:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KPSUH-0006IE-I2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:34:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KPSUF-0006Fz-LO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:34:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38467 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KPSUF-0006Fr-GY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:34:19 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:60709) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KPSUE-0003xd-RW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:34:19 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KPSTI-0007jx-88; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:33:20 -0400 In-reply-to: <20080802171212.GA2138@muc.de> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Sat, 2 Aug 2008 17:12:12 +0000) 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:101980 Archived-At: Borrowing notions from chess, you're talking about winning by direct attack, possibly with brilliant sacrifices along the way, while I see things more as a positional game, accumulating small advantages, manoevring against enemy weaknesses. You're Mikhail Tal, I'm José Capablanca. ;-) Your statement assumes both approaches can/do lead to victory. That is precisely what I am not sure of. One person posted here saying that running Emacs on Windows led him to drop Windows for GNU/Linux. In that case, the Windows support in Emacs did lead to victory. Perhaps it has done so in other cases too. If so, maybe it is effective. But just using Emacs and other free programs on Windows is not victory.