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Re: Git mirrors
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Git mirrors |
Date: |
Tue, 11 Oct 2011 07:49:50 -0400 |
> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
> Cc: Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden>,
> address@hidden,
> address@hidden,
> address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:33:46 +0900
>
> Eli Zaretskii writes:
>
> > Why should you expect the Emacs project to behave differently from any
> > other Free Software project?
>
> Because most of the projects in the class you have mentioned produce
> free *software*, but their political principles are those of the open
> source movement. Emacs is different because it *is* a Free Software
> project.
I specifically mentioned Gawk and GDB, which are GNU projects as much
as Emacs.
> One could argue that Emacs should advocate the use of the
> strongest possible "team" of free software tools, rather than being
> biased to the use of GNU-labeled tools. After all, the project has no
> problem labelling other non-GNU tools (TeX, perl, X11) as "part of the
> GNU System". But choosing tools on technical capability is clearly
> not the policy of the GNU Project, so the point is moot.
Choosing tools solely on technical capability isn't the policy, true.
But that's not really the point, because I was talking about the
behavior _after_ a decision has been made, not about the decision
itself. IOW, about "now", and not about "then".
> > I fail to see how this interpretation can be gleaned from what's been
> > said here. Projects that use git as their VCS are not being accused
> > of being "unfriendly competitors" to the GNU Project, and I, for one,
> > don't think they are. So what you say is simply unfair. I hope
> > fairness is still a virtue around here.
>
> Promoting an unusable tool merely because it had the GNU label is most
> definitely unfriendly competition.
Bzr is not unusable, so this argument is simply false.
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