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Re: Emacs Mac port
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Emacs Mac port |
Date: |
Tue, 29 Dec 2015 19:19:53 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden> writes:
> On 12/29/2015 08:00 PM, Clément Pit--Claudel wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> I think we consider people using non-GNU Emacs less of a problem than
> people using non-free platforms (or, worse, moving to them). Forks of
> Emacs are still libre software, after all.
Not if you have to agree to onerous conditions in order to even compile
them. Please take a look at the XCode use conditions.
--
David Kastrup
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- Re: Emacs Mac port, Rasmus, 2015/12/29
- 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, Clément Pit--Claudel, 2015/12/29
- Re: Emacs Mac port, Dmitry Gutov, 2015/12/29
- Re: Emacs Mac port,
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- Re: Emacs Mac port, Dmitry Gutov, 2015/12/29
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