dzzr@beta.UUCP (Douglas J Roberts) (04/12/88)
In article <1290ANKGC@CUNYVM>, ANKGC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Anil Khullar) writes: > In article <9890@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>, bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) says: > > > >>Also, unlike FSF, we LIKE NeWS. > > >This is a FSF attitude that I entirely disagree with. Chris Miao > >added support for NeWS 1.0 in Emacs 18.49, and Clayton Elwell fixed > >some stuff up for NeWS 1.1 in Emacs 18.50. I understand that Chris's > >changes were offered back to FSF as a contribution to their efforts, > >but were turned down because of NeWS' proprietary status. > > > >RMS, why not accept the changes on the same basis that VMS and SunView > >are included in the distribution: work that willing contributors > >offered, in order to give the product a wider audience, in those mean, > >nasty, proprietary non-standard environments? > > >Yes, I know that RMS doesn't read this newsgroup, but if we get > >everybody singing the first four bars... he'll think it's a movement! > > > ankgc@cunyvm.cuny.edu Supporting SunView, while vigorously shunning NeWs doesn't make sense to me, either. Doug Roberts Los Alamos National Laboratories dzzr@lanl.gov . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .