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Re: 23.1.94; pretest windows binaries


From: Uwe Siart
Subject: Re: 23.1.94; pretest windows binaries
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 06:29:45 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.94 (windows-nt)

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     > http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows
>     >    
>     Awesome!! Thanks alot for your efforts!
>
> Would you please tone down the enthusiasm?  Remember we're talking
> about the use of a proprietary operating system with spyware, DRM and
> back doors.
>
> Since Emacs is just an editor, not a god, it cannot do miracles.  It
> cannot make those problems of Windows disappear.

This is all correct. But notice also that there are users who /have/ to
use Windows. For them Emacs makes Windows sufferable. Windows without
Emacs would be beyond all bearing (by own experience).

-- 
Uwe





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