>>>>> "PV" == Philippe Vaucher writes: VP> If people find the alternative better it should be intencive to improve PV> the GNU packages... not to try to find ways of preventing them to use the PV> alternative (which is the wrong answer in my honest opinion, it's a sort PV> of vendor lockin). [...] PV> I don't think that promoting the GNU project should be more important than VP> having Emacs support free software, especially for something most Emacs VP> user would expect it to do. I strongly agree. Inhibiting users' freedom to choose other *free* software, because that other free software is not part of the GNU project, makes it sound like the ubiquity of the GNU project, and not user freedom, is the goal. I understand believing that "GNU everywhere" could increase freedom due to the nature of the GPL, but now it starts to sound a lot more like "freedom to use what the FSF thinks you should use", rather than real freedom -- especially when the FSF's choices are less capable than other free alternatives. -- John Wiegley GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F http://newartisans.com 60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2