It might be acheivable but I doubt GNU would agree to a student from
their allocated number working on a port of Emacs to a proprietary
platform.
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.
I think some perspective is needed here: last year GNU, as an
organisation, was
allocated 9 students which meant under one student per project from
those that
had applied. Unless GNUstep is a get out of jail clause, I think
giving people
false hope sends out the wrong message. Of course, all these ideas
are to be
encouraged and should get the support of the mailing list, but
probably only
one, at most, will receive a grant.