From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Frank Schmitt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Release plans Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:15:18 +0200 Organization: Hamme net, kren mer och nimmi Message-ID: References: <570553.73339.qm@web95014.mail.in2.yahoo.com> <20080731093022.GB2886@muc.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1217600202 22328 80.91.229.12 (1 Aug 2008 14:16:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 14:16:42 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 01 16:17:32 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KOvRc-0008Ru-FR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:17:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33020 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KOvQh-0005eb-SL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:16:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KOvQd-0005eS-Lh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:16:23 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KOvQc-0005e4-Gm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:16:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34320 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KOvQc-0005e1-Dl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:16:22 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:58591 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KOvQc-0003r0-8P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:16:22 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KOvQW-0000Tf-N9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:16:16 +0000 Original-Received: from p5b24ae52.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([91.36.174.82]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:16:16 +0000 Original-Received: from ich by p5b24ae52.dip0.t-ipconnect.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:16:16 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p5b24ae52.dip0.t-ipconnect.de X-Face: :EL9TzGRN){7|oE2~xQ8Q(VjpjsXgX$~gi&rYD5J5p)$w\Thdl~v:7h`/n)J!8nXT%_+Wj6}@EHM8}QbA(9nX-wrQ:ch1%DauV[?kFasXUcnL#+"K8zOx&$@/M'/}, q-eztaJra1|?C+p$h\2XnK-HB"8_U List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:101887 Archived-At: Richard M Stallman writes: > Sadly, > the freedom in free software doesn't excite most people - Emacs's > capabilities do, though. > > Have you seen any cases where that eventually led a person to switch > from proprietary software to free software? Here! Emacs (more precisely Gnus) was the first contact I made with free software. I started using it not because it was free, but because it was the most powerful newsreader I could find. Now I run a GNU/Linux based free environment on my home PC, on my PC at work and I installed Linux on the PCs of my mom (she never ever used proprietary software in her whole life!) and my wife. -- Did you ever realize how much text fits in eighty columns? If you now consider that a signature usually consists of up to four lines, this gives you enough space to spread a tremendous amount of information with your messages. So seize this opportunity and don't waste your signature with bullshit nobody will read.