On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Praveen A <[email protected]> wrote: > 2010/9/18 Siju George <[email protected]>: >> "BSD systems refer to proprietary drivers as “blobs” and some have >> policies against including these. That is good, but unfortunately no >> BSD system has policies against proprietary binary-only firmware that >> might be loaded even by free drivers." >> >> and look at this page >> >> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ >> >> His emacs not only has no policies against proprietary platforms but >> **ACTUALLY CONTAINS CODE TO RUN THE SOFTWARE ON WINDOWS" thus >> encouraging people to use MS Windows when it comes to his software :-D >> >> Hippocrite! >> > > Those are different directions. People with proprietary software is > encouraged to use Free Sotfware in case of Emacs. How is it > encouraging emacs users to use windows? > > But in case of BSDs Free Software users are encouraged to use > proprietary software. > > We are promoting Free Software among proprietary software users, not > other way around. I think that is an important difference. >
for spin doctors ofcourse :-) I don't want to get into an argument! Emacs is there on windows so why change to FOSS OS huh? --Siju _______________________________________________ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #[email protected]
