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Re: Meanness
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Meanness |
Date: |
Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:22:56 +0300 |
> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:01:11 +0200
>
> > As long as Emacs is not sold to Microsoft nor bundled with it out of
> > the box, no one can claim that I'm improving non-free operating
> > systems.
>
> Does that mean that you would not work on supporting Bash on Windows
> since a Bash port has been sold to Microsoft by Interix and is being
> distributed by Microsoft as part of SFU (Services for Unix)? The same
> appears to hold for GNU file and text utilities, and certainly for the
> "GNU SDK" including GCC.
If working on these tools is okay for their GNU maintainers, it's
probably okay for me as well.
> But that's missing the point. Of course free software will also get
> used and employed on proprietary systems. It is one consequence of
> their freedom. The question was whether we should make it _our_ focus,
> the focus of the GNU project.
You are missing the point. _My_ focus is making _my_ life easier on
all the platforms on which I need to work. Because I like others
benefit from what I'm doing, I contribute that to the GNU Project. I
think that helps the GNU Project move forward, and I have numerous
proofs that GNU maintainers indeed think so, because some of them
actually told me so in person, even though they knew exactly what
platforms I work on.
No one said that the GNU Project should actively try to win the
Windows applications niche. But there's a world of difference between
that and publicly bashing contributors who happen to work on Windows
or other non-free platforms most of their workdays.
- Re: Meanness, (continued)
- 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 <=
- Re: Meanness, Richard M Stallman, 2008/07/27
- Re: Meanness, Richard M Stallman, 2008/07/27
Re: Meanness, Stefan Monnier, 2008/07/26