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Re: MAINTAINERS file
From: |
Juanma Barranquero |
Subject: |
Re: MAINTAINERS file |
Date: |
Fri, 7 Mar 2008 09:50:10 +0100 |
On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 4:37 AM, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
> That is completely backwards. The free software movement is a
> political cause, not a technical one. "Choose based on technical
> criteria first of all" is the opposite of what we say.
That's twisting a bit what I said, I think. I specifically said
"selecting among the free alternatives", so it is clear that politics
plays an important part.
> There are many reasons why GNU packages should support other GNU
> packages.
Yes. But then, you're equating "support" with "use with preference to
other free alternatives", and I don't think that follows necessarily.
> The GNU Project is not just a collection of software packages. Its
> intended result is a coherent operating system. It is particularly
> important therefore that GNU packages should work well with other GNU
> packages.
By that reasoning, we all should try using GNU/Hurd, shouldn't we?
> The maintainers of one GNU package should use other GNU packages so
> they will notice whether the packages work well together, and make
> them work well together.
Perhaps. But if git were used by 90% of users, and Bazaar by 5% (I'm
making up the numbers, of course), time spent in making Emacs work
well with git would be better spent, from a free software perspective.
> Other people don't necessarily see which editor you use,
> but they all see what dVCS you use.
That would be more convincing if every GNU package except by Emacs
were using Bazaar. Is that so?
Juanma
- Re: MAINTAINERS file, (continued)
- Re: MAINTAINERS file, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2008/03/06
- Re: MAINTAINERS file, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/03/04
- Re: MAINTAINERS file, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2008/03/04
- Re: MAINTAINERS file, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard, 2008/03/04
- Re: MAINTAINERS file, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/03/04
- Re: MAINTAINERS file, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard, 2008/03/04
- Re: MAINTAINERS file, Stefan Monnier, 2008/03/04
- Re: MAINTAINERS file, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/03/05
- Re: MAINTAINERS file, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/03/05
- Re: MAINTAINERS file, Richard Stallman, 2008/03/06
- Re: MAINTAINERS file,
Juanma Barranquero <=
- Re: MAINTAINERS file, David Kastrup, 2008/03/07
- Re: MAINTAINERS file, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/03/07
- Re: MAINTAINERS file, Thomas Lord, 2008/03/07
- Re: MAINTAINERS file, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/03/07
- Re: MAINTAINERS file, Thomas Lord, 2008/03/07
- Re: MAINTAINERS file, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/03/07
- Re: MAINTAINERS file, Thomas Lord, 2008/03/07
- Re: MAINTAINERS file, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/03/07
- Re: MAINTAINERS file, Richard Stallman, 2008/03/08
- Re: MAINTAINERS file, Davi Leal, 2008/03/09