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Re: Meanness
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Meanness |
Date: |
Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:49:42 +0300 |
> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:37:20 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>
> if [my parents or spouse] choose to use a system for which I am not
> willing or able to do support. It just means that they are on their own
> with it, nothing more, nothing less.
Shouldn't you argue with them and condemn them as being unethical and
immoral?
If not, why won't you leave me and Juanma ``on our own''?
> And frankly, my abilities for support on a machine where I can't use ssh
> for remote access would be quite limited, anyway.
You can install ssh on Windows. And Windows has its built-in ways of
remote access out of the box. Though I can hardly believe that this
piece of technical knowledge will change your views, so I wonder why
you raise this issue at all.
> So if your goal is to improve Emacs on Windows
I said the goal is improving Emacs. All the rest is your invention.
> > Let's not put that goal in jeopardy by emphasizing minor (yes, minor!)
> > differences between us on how soon and how completely should each
> > private citizen switch to using Free Software and Free Software alone.
>
> That never was the issue. The issue is more like what we have to gain
> by having more and more software developers distracted by spending much
> of their time working on supporting non-free platforms or dealing with
> the consequences of such support.
Please do yourself a favor and stop caring about how others spend
their time. You have little if any control of that; in my experience
it's better to be grateful for whatever time they find to contribute
to goals that I consider worthy.
And while at that, how about spending all the effort and time taken by
responding to each and every article in this discussion on hacking
Emacs?
- Re: Meanness, (continued)
- Re: Meanness, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/07/26
- Re: Meanness, Thomas Lord, 2008/07/26
- Re: Meanness, David Kastrup, 2008/07/26
- Re: Meanness, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/07/26
- Re: Meanness, David Kastrup, 2008/07/26
- Re: Meanness, David Kastrup, 2008/07/26
- Re: Meanness,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Meanness, Óscar Fuentes, 2008/07/26
- Re: Meanness, David Kastrup, 2008/07/26
- Re: Meanness, Óscar Fuentes, 2008/07/26
- Re: Meanness, Richard M Stallman, 2008/07/27
- Re: Meanness, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2008/07/26
- Re: Meanness, Chong Yidong, 2008/07/26
- Re: Meanness, David Kastrup, 2008/07/26
- Re: Meanness, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/07/26
- Re: Meanness, David Kastrup, 2008/07/26
- Re: Meanness, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/07/26