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Re: Emacs Mac port
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Clément Pit--Claudel |
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Re: Emacs Mac port |
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Tue, 29 Dec 2015 19:00:16 +0100 |
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On 12/29/2015 07:51 AM, Richard Stallman wrote:
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> > It was my understanding that it is fine to have features that a volunteer
> is
> > willing to do the work for, just not to promote features that would make a
> > non-GNU platform more attractive (such as, by devoting any other
> resources to
> > their development, or giving them special status in any way).
>
> That is basically right. More precisely, we don't want GNU Emacs to give
> people any practical reason to prefer some other system to GNU.
Yet this is precisely what we do, unwillingly: GNU Emacs lack of features on
GNU Linux (compared to forks available on other systems) gives people practical
reasons to use a non-GNU Emacs, on a non-free platform (that's where Emacs (but
not GNU Emacs) works best).
Thus not accepting these MacOS-specific features in GNU Emacs only encourages
people to prefer a non-GNU fork of Emacs; it doesn't do anything to prevent
them from switching to a non-free platform. In conclusion, instead of using GNU
Emacs on a non-free platform, people use a non-GNU Emacs on a non-free platform.
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- Re: Emacs Mac port, (continued)
- Re: Emacs Mac port, John Wiegley, 2015/12/29
- Re: Emacs Mac port, Clément Pit--Claudel, 2015/12/29
- Re: Emacs Mac port, Richard Stallman, 2015/12/30
- Re: Emacs Mac port, John Wiegley, 2015/12/30
- Re: Emacs Mac port, Chad Brown, 2015/12/30
- Re: Emacs Mac port, YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu, 2015/12/30
- Re: Emacs Mac port, Paul Eggert, 2015/12/30
- Re: Emacs Mac port, Adrian . B . Robert, 2015/12/31
- Re: Emacs Mac port,
Clément Pit--Claudel <=
- Re: Emacs Mac port, Dmitry Gutov, 2015/12/29
- Re: Emacs Mac port, David Kastrup, 2015/12/29
- Re: Emacs Mac port, Dmitry Gutov, 2015/12/29
- Re: Emacs Mac port, Alex Dunn, 2015/12/29
- Re: Emacs Mac port, John Wiegley, 2015/12/29
- Re: Emacs Mac port, David Kastrup, 2015/12/29
- Re: Emacs Mac port, John Wiegley, 2015/12/29
- Re: Emacs Mac port, David Kastrup, 2015/12/30
- Re: Emacs Mac port, CHENG Gao, 2015/12/30
- Re: Emacs Mac port, Clément Pit--Claudel, 2015/12/29