Re: future of quail

On 2/15/2011 6:52 AM, David Kastrup wrote: My view on these license wars just to be somewhat more pragmatic. One of the things that contributed to my disability was participating in license wars and arguing about the benefits of one form of licensing versus another. High emotion, angry typing all contributed to damaging my hands. From this insight, I learned that in the short-term licenses don't matter. People ignore them and you either want to get some software released or you want to argue. If you want to get some software released, you're engaging in productive activity. If you want to argue, you are keeping others and yourself from engaging in productive activities. In the long term, licensing doesn't matter because we are all dead. I'm probably closer to that than the rest of you and I simply want to get things done. As I said when I introduced myself, I'm here because Stallman (not his licensing) said that there was no way I could create a bridge between NaturallySpeaking and Emacs that he could support. here, folks were far more pragmatic and seem to be okay with a bridge forming a IP barrier between the two worlds which was a welcome relief from fanaticism. We need to carry that lack of fanaticism forward into licensing domain. My request is to take the energy you're putting into arguments on on the licensing and get the next revision out. I'm looking forward to getting some small tasks that I can use to help teach me something about the build process of XEmacs and contribute to the next release in some small way. let's try to move forward and not circle the drain with arguments that were old shortly after the introduction of the GPL. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta