Mail Archives: cygwin/1997/02/18/22:14:25
Ted Lemon wrote:
>
> Jim, your ability to flame is truly magnificent. If you want to think
> of it as critical analysis and pretend that what you're doing is
> polite and constructive, I guess I can't stop you. From my
> perspective, critical analysis is only distinct from flaming to the
> extent that it used to further constructive discourse. A key
> requirement of constructive discourse is that it show some signs of
> convergence. The discussion about Cygnus' recent press release shows
> no signs of convergence. I would call it a flame war. I definitely
> would not characterize it as useful discourse. Whether or not you are
> ``right'', continuing to espouse your many opinions on this topic has
> no purpose other than to ensure that every second message on the
> gnu-win32 mailing list comes from Jim Q. Balter.
As usual you are off-topic with your metaflames. Take it elsewhere.
> My knowledge of the FSF history comes not from reading emacs news
> files, but from participating in said history, talking to the
> principals and reading relevant on-line source material. I may have
> the cutoff version number wrong, but the conflict that I describe over
> Gosmacs did happen. If you want to correct my knowledge of FSF
> history, that's fine - I don't claim to be perfectly informed. But at
> least get your own facts straight first.
I documented my claim. There was a conflict, but it was not of the
nature you have described. Your memory is faulty. GNU emacs has
always used elisp and it never was based upon Gosling emacs.
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