Extracting the abstract syntax tree from GCC

Posted Jan 17, 2015 0:00 UTC (Sat) by rdc (guest, #87801)
Parent article: Extracting the abstract syntax tree from GCC

I am glad to see people pointing out the hypocrisy of Stallman's position, in protecting freedom he is limiting freedom of devs, users and usefulness of the tools he has championed for decades, and appears unable to see the problem

Extracting the abstract syntax tree from GCC

Posted Jan 17, 2015 12:53 UTC (Sat) by seyman (subscriber, #1172) [Link] (1 responses)

> he is limiting freedom of devs, users

He is doing no such thing. If others feel that Emacs badly needs a specific feature, they are free to fork it or fund someone else to do so.

Saying that FLOSS users are as helpless before the editor of their software as users of proprietary software is a confession that the speaker understands very little about Free Software.

Extracting the abstract syntax tree from GCC

Posted Jan 20, 2015 4:48 UTC (Tue) by k8to (guest, #15413) [Link]

I don't think it was claimed that proprietary software is equivalent to this situation.

However, it's *also* not as simple as "just fork if you want" when that would be a pretty expensive action for a project with the history and culture of Emacs.

It's not like we don't have history to go by here.