Re: GCC2 merging (was "native language support now available")
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 11:23:52 -0700
From: "J. Kean Johnston" <jkj(a)sco.com>
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 05:41:51PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
The people who developed XEmacs decided to split it off without ever
trying to work with me. Because of this, I am forced to be in a
rivalry with them.
I am sorry, I just can NOT accept that statement.
Good, because it's an outright lie -- worse than I've seen him make
about the situation previously.
There was a lot of discussion amongst RPG, JWZ, and RMS around the
time of the schism and there were serious technical disagreements --
like RMS' opposition to abstract data typing (!) of keymaps, menus,
etc. -- but many people have tried very hard to work with RMS and in
some cases have just found the task too daunting. I can try to (once
again) dig up my archive of the discussion if RMS continues to make
these ridiculous claims -- if someone else has it more readily at hand
than I do, could you send me a pointer and save me a trip through my
offline archives?
They gained a short-term advantage by not asking contributors for
legal papers, the way I do; that endangers the ability to enforce the
GPL for XEmacs.
If GPL is worth a damn, then the assignment issue is bullshit.
Personally I don't like its restrictions of RMS' notion of ``free
software''. Public Domain is the most free (no restriction) even if
some works derived from PD work are allowed to be less free.
Rick
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