Re: xemacs wiki

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.xemacs.design
Organization The XEmacs Project
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> writes:

    Eli> Stephen, your outburst of enmity is at least misdirected

My point is simply that rms gave the rest of the world good advice
about creating new licenses:  Don't.  His failure to follow his own
advice, for the sake of _free advertising_, is creating headaches for
others, in particular the XEmacs project.  I should kiss him for this?

    Eli> In an ideal world, freedom would be an understandable right
    Eli> and the default in every human endeavour.  That this is not
    Eli> so, is the primary reason we need licenses and lawyers in the
    Eli> first place.  That's what I meant when I wrote the text [...].

That's exactly how I understood it.

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