Re: Emacs vista build failures

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:51:05 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> From: Richard M Stallman <address@hidden>
> >> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:05:28 -0400
> >> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden,
> >>    address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> >> 
> >>     > When I ask myself, is the world better for having Emacs and Firefox
> >>     > running on Microsoft Windows, the answer is an unequivocal yes -
> >>     > people who hack on MS-Windows can thus do a better job.
> >> 
> >>     But their job does not in general benefit others.  So we are creating
> >>     better opportunities for work that does not help the community.
> >> 
> >> I agree.
> >
> > Are you saying that my hacking on the Windows Emacs doesn't benefit
> > others, including Emacs on other platforms?
> 
> You don't have time left for getting Emacs-Bidi to run on any platform,
> right?

Irrelevant: Emacs-Bidi cannot be done one hour at a time.

> And there are a lot of other tasks that remain to be done in order
> to arrive at freely available solutions for everyone

Like what?

> But it is a good idea to reevaluate one's priorities from time to time
> and ask oneself about the net benefits.  And "can people do freely now
> what they could not before?" is a more important question for the GNU
> project than "can people do on a proprietary platform now what they
> could only do on a free one before?".

True, but not at all related to my original question above.