Re: Summer of Code 2009

[Chong Yidong]

Will Farrington <address@hidden> writes:

> Eliminating bugs from Emacs is *always* a good thing, even for
> proprietary platforms. I think discouraging people from trying to
> improve Emacs based upon the platform they use sends the wrong
> message.

That's not the point.  Certainly, contributions are welcome for all
platforms.  However, in the case of GSoC, we're trying to select a small
number of projects to be worked on.  In this case, it makes sense to
steer people towards efforts that do not narrowly benefit non-free
platforms.