Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!yale!cmcl2!beta!dzzr
From: dzzr@beta.UUCP (Douglas J Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Gnu Window environment support
Message-ID: <17735@beta.UUCP>
Date: 11 Apr 88 21:14:51 GMT
References: <8803291504.AA08952@unipress.uucp> <9890@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <1290ANKGC@CUNYVM>
Organization: Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, N.M.
Lines: 42
Summary: SunView yes, NeWs no == inconsistant

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
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