Re: Richard Stallman: Emacs 19

RMS, recently you asked me outright, in person, to work on GNU Emacs instead of XEmacs. This was at the O'Reilly Open Source Developer's Day on Aug. 21 this year. Do you not remember this? rms> You see wrongdoing in my actions the way some people see faces in rms> pictures of Mars--because that's what you want to see. rc> Initially he was so worried that Lucid would ask rc> people to stop hacking on FSF's version of GNU Emacs (never happened), rms> I don't know whether Lucid did, but people working on XEmacs since rms> then have done so on various occasions. Most recently, Johnston did rms> so with a message on an unrelated mailing list. I asked him, rms> privately, not to do that. rc> but said that *he* would never do so. rms> And I did not do so now. Look at what I said, and look at what I rms> responded to, and you will see that I told Johnston the same sort of rms> thing that I said years ago: please don't ask people to stop rms> cooperating with me. Ben (typed by Martin)