xemacs vs emacs

Dear Sir or Madam, I am writing to ask whether statement from book about xemacs is true. Recently I have read "Linux Programmers Toolbox" and quote from it: "Xemacs was a fork of Emacs, but now it seems these two programs have merged into one big happy executable" But on site http://www.xemacs.org/About/XEmacsVsGNUemacs.html I have found: "There are currently irreconcilable differences in the views about technical, programming, design and organizational matters between Richard Stallman (RMS) and the XEmacs development team which provide little hope for a merge to take place in the short-term future. If you have a comment regarding a merge, it is a good idea to avoid posting to the newsgroups, because of the very heated flamewars that often result. Mail your questions to xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org and emacs-devel(a)gnu.org. Many people have noticed the great difference in focus between the two "Viewpoints" presented here, and also have expressed confusion about the legal issues RMS focuses on. The final sections present some explanation and interpretation regarding these FAQs. " I would like to know the truth, what this "difference" is all about. Yours faithfully, Adrian Elczewski _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta