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From: wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry)
Date: 17 Sep 1997 06:46:05 -0700
In-Reply-To: Noah Friedman's message of "Wed, 17 Sep 1997 02:54:14 -0700 (PDT)"
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Noah Friedman <friedman@splode.com> writes:

> >"Barry A. Warsaw" <bwarsaw@CNRI.Reston.Va.US> writes:
> >>     Hrvoje> This is becoming obscene!  It seems that Emacs 20 will
> >>     Hrvoje> break every single piece of Lisp code.
> >> 
> >>     Hrvoje> All praise Ben!
> >> 
> >> Yeah, and if this is true, I will revolt the first time I have to do
> >> anything like this to *my* code!
> >
> >What if Stallman makes the changes without asking for your consent?
> 
> The quick and easy way to stop rms from doing that is not to assign your
> program to the FSF in the first place.  Of course, he won't distribute your
> program with Emacs at all in that case, but anything that prevents him from
> pissing on my code I consider to be a good thing.  Call me jaded, I guess,
> but I think the brain death of MULE in Emacs 20 is sufficient cause.

  I for one will probably not maintain anything more than the most basic
code dealing with Mule in emacs 20.x (for Emacs/W3)... it is just too
painful.

-Bill P.

