From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Helmut Eller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Git mirrors Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:21:34 +0200 Message-ID: References: <8762k095n4.fsf@lifelogs.com> <871uuksdxi.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87lissh32y.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87zkh8e286.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87d3e4gttq.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87ehyjrhxh.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87d3e2rfte.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <878voqfiaw.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87lisq8bu3.fsf@gmail.com> <87pqi2dwds.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87hb3e86vi.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1318443727 6096 80.91.229.12 (12 Oct 2011 18:22:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:22:07 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 12 20:22:03 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 1RE3RH-00061K-0s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:21:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58215 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RE3RG-0002wL-HG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:21:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:52292) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RE3RD-0002tp-SL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:21:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RE3RC-0003Kj-Pd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:21:55 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:43227) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RE3RC-0003KX-KW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:21:54 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RE3RC-0005yS-0y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:21:54 +0200 Original-Received: from 212.46.173.155 ([212.46.173.155]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:21:53 +0200 Original-Received: from eller.helmut by 212.46.173.155 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:21:53 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.46.173.155 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:QBWXpgjzkQF6ili8xnyvO4uT4Ho= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:145039 Archived-At: * Vijay Lakshminarayanan [2011-10-12 17:19] writes: >> For the nth time: I want to know why such policy is considered good for >> the Free Software cause (being GNU an instrument of such cause), > > The reason to support GNU projects over others is that it is the stated > goal of GNU that all distributed software should be Free and copylefted > by law. To this end, any software project that shares the same goals > will be supported. > > Git, Linux etc., fall under the principle of "Open Source" which is a > pragmatic rather than political movement. If I'm not mistaken, even RMS uses Linux instead of Hurd. Double standards? Helmut