Re: Asking me not to work on XEmacs

At 07:24 13/12/98 -0700, Richard Stallman wrote: I suppose I agree in that I don't see where this is leading us. 100% of my emacs-related hacking is targetted at XEmacs, however I'm probably changing jobs soon and will probably sign papers in the interim not because I want to start hacking emacs or because I agree that its necessary or because I want to see XEmacs and emacs merged but because if I don't I'm essentially defeating the purpose of free software. I like the fact that XEmacs and emacs compete - I think we get more because of the competition but the fact that cross-fertilisation can only be one way due to copyright issues galls me. I would never work on emacs because I like the purpose, direction and environment that XEmacs is developed in - but I want the stuff I do to be available to emacs because I believe in free software and I've benefitted the other way so much. andy --------------------------------------------------------------------------- " .sigs are like your face - rarely seen by you and uglier than you think" Dr Andy Piper, Technical Architect, Parallax Solutions Ltd mail: andyp(a)parallax.co.uk web: www.parallax.co.uk/~andyp