Re: Emacs Community and FSF Governance Critique: A Call for Pluralism, Evolution, or Trolling?

Divya Ranjan via Emacs news and miscellaneous discussions outside the scope of other Emacs mailing lists <[email protected]> Sat, 23 Aug 2025 17:25:33 +0000
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"Bro" was also the person who sent a 3K LOC commit for gnus and became offe=
nsive when asked to restructure it into smaller patches that can be reviewe=
d=2E

It's the same issue, people don't understand how exactly Free Software wor=
ks yet have the most glaring critiques=2E=20

On 23 August 2025 13:08:12 GMT, Psionic K via Emacs news and miscellaneous=
 discussions outside the scope of other Emacs mailing lists <emacs-tangents=
@gnu=2Eorg> wrote:
>Bro was ahead of the curve with Commercial Emacs=2E  Maybe not at
>generating a broad enough coalition to see its rise to eminence, but
>certainly it is a repository=2E
>
>I was actually just rebuilding my IGC branch with clang to do some FDO
>on it=2E  Managed to get 25% pre-FDO with more aggressive flags=2E  How's
>commercial Emacs looking these days?  I didn't get the newsletter=2E
>
>---
>via emacs-tangents mailing list (https://lists=2Egnu=2Eorg/mailman/listin=
fo/emacs-tangents)

Divya Ranjan, Mathematics, Philosophy and Libre Software
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<html><head></head><body><div dir=3D"auto">"Bro" was also the person who se=
nt a 3K LOC commit for gnus and became offensive when asked to restructure =
it into smaller patches that can be reviewed=2E<br><br>It's the same issue,=
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glaring critiques=2E </div><br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><div dir=3D"a=
uto">On 23 August 2025 13:08:12 GMT, Psionic K via Emacs news and miscellan=
eous discussions outside the scope of other Emacs mailing lists &lt;emacs-t=
angents@gnu=2Eorg&gt; wrote:</div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=
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<pre class=3D"k9mail"><div dir=3D"auto">Bro was ahead of the curve with Co=
mmercial Emacs=2E  Maybe not at<br>generating a broad enough coalition to s=
ee its rise to eminence, but<br>certainly it is a repository=2E<br><br>I wa=
s actually just rebuilding my IGC branch with clang to do some FDO<br>on it=
=2E  Managed to get 25% pre-FDO with more aggressive flags=2E  How's<br>com=
mercial Emacs looking these days?  I didn't get the newsletter=2E<hr>via em=
acs-tangents mailing list (<a href=3D"https://lists=2Egnu=2Eorg/mailman/lis=
tinfo/emacs-tangents">https://lists=2Egnu=2Eorg/mailman/listinfo/emacs-tang=
ents</a>)<br></div></pre></blockquote></div><div dir=3D"auto">Divya Ranjan,=
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