From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] system-type cygwin with window-system w32 Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 18:08:35 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4E2377E2.1020804@gmail.com> <4E23DA4A.1080301@gmail.com> <4E23FFB4.1040809@gmail.com> <4E240FC5.3050509@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1311026956 13282 80.91.229.12 (18 Jul 2011 22:09:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 22:09:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Colascione Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 19 00:09:11 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qivzz-0008R9-5L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:09:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45562 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qivzx-000160-Rz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 18:09:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:34611) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QivzW-00015Z-Ne for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 18:08:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QivzS-0006lR-Dm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 18:08:42 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:49794) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QivzS-0006lN-3F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 18:08:38 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QivzP-0003VU-UK; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 18:08:36 -0400 In-reply-to: <4E240FC5.3050509@gmail.com> (message from Daniel Colascione on Mon, 18 Jul 2011 03:49:41 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 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:142140 Archived-At: I don't recall that discussion. Can we reopen it? According to [1], Windows 98 has a market share of 0.03%. That must be hundreds of thousands of people. We should not be in a hurry to delete code that is already in Emacs and might be useful for someone. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use free telephony http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/