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Re: Emacs as browser (was Re: Concurrency, again)


From: Perry E. Metzger
Subject: Re: Emacs as browser (was Re: Concurrency, again)
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 14:30:31 -0400

On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 14:04:15 -0400 Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
wrote:
>   > Wayland is on the horizon for Linux.  
> 
> Is Wayland tied specifically to Linux?

Wayland is sort of an X successor based on much more modern
principles. It will run on other free operating systems as well as
GNU/Linux.

>                                        X doesn't have an infinite
>   > life ahead of it, it dates from the 1980s and the free OS world
>   > is working to move past it (thus Wayland). I suspect that simply
>   > adopting Webkit (which is LGPL already) directly will probably
>   > fix most potential portability problems, since the Webkit
>   > people have to support whatever is used on most platforms
>   > already.  
> 
> That seems plausible to me -- provided you really meant "GNU/Linux"
> in the first line.

I did.

Perry
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Perry E. Metzger                address@hidden



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