Re: Inappropriate advocacy [Was: wikipedia's (ascii) math notation? emacs easy-way to translate it?]

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hi, Richard!

On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 04:18:40AM +0100, Richard Riley wrote:
> Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

> > Hi, Xah!

> > On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 10:22:01AM -0800, Xah Lee wrote:

> >> When tech geekers speak of TeX, they often speak of in the domain of
> >> mathematical knowledge presentation and publishing. In the math
> >> knowledge presentation, i am a expert, and personally known that
> >> <proprietary product> is a ORDER OF MAGNITUDE better than TeX.

> > Everybody is asked not to advocate non-free products on the GNU
> > mailing-lists/newsgroups, even when on-topic.  There are other forums
> > where one can do this (e.g. comp.emacs).

> > Please don't do this again on help-gnu-emacs.  Thanks!

> >>   Xah

> I'm quite interested in this.

> So one can not, for example, say "Visual Studio has this great feature
> Y which is superior to Emacs function Z for the following reasons, can
> anyone suggest how best to improve Emacs to reach the same level"?

The abstract principle is that the GNU groups exist to promote free
software in general, and GNU software in particular.  Your hypothetical
sentence is entirely consistant with that aim.

> Sounds a tad "non free" if you don't mind the pun.

It is a tad non free.  But only a tad.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).