Re: Reboot: Strategic goals for GNOME

[Jonathon Jongsma <jonathon quotidian org>]

On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 09:05 -0800, Lefty (石鏡 ) wrote:
> On 3/5/10 8:44 AM, "David Schlesinger" <lefty shugendo org> wrote:
> > 
> > "If everything gets done inside or through your browser, it would make
> > toolkits such as GTK and desktop environments such as GNOME obsolete,
> > except as platforms for a browser."
> 
> Just so we're completely clear here, I'd suggest that
> 
> "If everything gets done inside or through EMACS, it would make toolkits
> such as GTK and desktop environments such as GNOME obsolete, except as
> platforms for EMACS."
> 
> is neither less true, nor less unreasonable, than the statement I've quoted.
> 
> I'd gently point out that the EMACS project has been generally attempting to
> do pretty much precisely this for going on four decades now. That doesn't
> provide any more support for the position that using EMACS is detrimental to
> GNOME than the original statement does for the position that using a browser
> is detrimental to GNOME.

With all of the recent comments about how horrible foundation-list has
become, and how people are unsubscribing because of endless and
pointless argumentation, you *still* can't get yourself to refrain from
adding more and more heat to the thread???  Can you please stop now?
Please?