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: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:49:53 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4E2377E2.1020804@gmail.com> <4E23DA4A.1080301@gmail.com> <4E23FFB4.1040809@gmail.com> <4E240FC5.3050509@gmail.com> <4E24B282.209@gmail.com> <877h7frywn.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <4E24BA29.1060509@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 1311097512 3557 80.91.229.12 (19 Jul 2011 17:45:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:45:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dak@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 19:45:08 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 1QjELv-0006ac-T3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:45:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46561 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QjELu-00052q-Fv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:45:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:33239) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QjDUd-0008L0-K0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:50:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QjDUY-0003Rz-7L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:49:59 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:57599) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QjDUX-0003Rs-Ss for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:49:53 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QjDUX-0006tC-8e; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:49:53 -0400 In-reply-to: <4E24BA29.1060509@gmail.com> (message from Daniel Colascione on Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:56:41 -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:142153 Archived-At: Any machine that is running Windows ought to be defenestrated, moved to GNU/Linux. But it makes no sense to try to pressure people to do this by dropping our Emacs support for some or all versions of Windows. As for moving from one version of Windows to another, we should never adopt that as a goal. To encourage people to a upgrade Windows grants legitimacy to Windows, and therefore contradicts the GNU Project philosophy. Please do not argue on that basis here. -- 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/