From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs design and architecture Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2023 19:03:38 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87fs3ur9u8.fsf@dataswamp.org> <875y4moiiq.fsf@dataswamp.org> <83r0n4rj78.fsf@gnu.org> <83cyynpmvd.fsf@gnu.org> <838r99mh40.fsf@gnu.org> <83h6nwlmt4.fsf@gnu.org> <456d12ac-ecf4-3de4-56bb-a2440580777f@gutov.dev> <83a5tokmsv.fsf@gnu.org> <83sf7fki5g.fsf@gnu.org> <43d642a8-d1b4-05ed-41e0-6e52d22df2d4@gutov.dev> <83edizjn0v.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="22345"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, dmitry@gutov.dev, yuri.v.khan@gmail.com, owinebar@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Gerd =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=C3=B6llmann?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 18 01:04:08 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qi0oC-0005aT-Ab for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 18 Sep 2023 01:04:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qi0nj-0000wR-RX; Sun, 17 Sep 2023 19:03:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qi0ni-0000vp-LH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Sep 2023 19:03:38 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qi0ni-0000Yl-B0; Sun, 17 Sep 2023 19:03:38 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=jwEtx0hh87DwiGquxWnp/TmZ1FUshK9G2YiseTKGiEg=; b=OB1PUg8Hwahq OGyhmOXqr0AxeEgcQUF+NQgAKLIp0HRAYEl6Ja2MhjnCtTLH2wPiwtiXKmG6Uk7eNwFP7JIbSWJ39 id90KnPLeMdmHH2XzyesJxi1k9mVg6qGDkDTCeTPBsHq0+gTYwU6/5Mk4BTu9mR8+Y3yU54CsuIPd xIgy63WiGBAhqrbFlwM46O1i7KZ40PPuLpJkD0127CHShsv3FBfOgi+vJ17berkDKOWOSEEhKDqLC 1ScH59IDq2p0TaiFM6yo7Vj0BshmE7QUz3PeMIG+AnCCxWNv0FOyyfWNLxb7+bLbTZ50gpdWkNjP2 /JRnU+6ChJ0IyhmCO9IXMg==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qi0ni-0003dh-2g; Sun, 17 Sep 2023 19:03:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Gerd =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=C3=B6llmann?= on Fri, 15 Sep 2023 21:19:35 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:310682 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > >> WebRender is a GPU-based 2D rendering engine written in Rust from > >> Mozilla. Firefox, the research web browser Servo, and other GUI > >> frameworks draw with it. emacs-ng use it as a new experimental graphic > >> backend to leverage GPU hardware. If that means it is designed to require or encourage using a GPU to display through, that is a moral problem. Most GPUs require the user to install nonfree firmware. GNU software must not suggest users do that. So we cannot make GNU Emacs depend on that. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)