Re: Meanness

[Daniel Colascione]

On Saturday 26 July 2008, David Kastrup wrote:
> My experience with Windows-too projects runs quite contrary.  The costs
> are in _no_ relation whatsoever to the benefits for the non-Windows
> parts (actually, their tend to be only costs for them, without
> benefits).  And I don't see Emacs as an exception.  The benefit for a
> Windows port lies in having a Windows port.  If there were tangible
> other benefits, we could invent imaginary operating systems en gros and
> spend our time porting to them.

I know several people who began using Free Software systems because they first 
used Emacs on Windows, moved to Cygwin, and eventually to entirely free 
operating systems.