Re: Consideration for Rust contributions in Emacs

[Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide]

Po Lu via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org> writes:

> Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> There are no real ideological reasons.
>
> This has changed.  From my POV, Rust is now completely unsuitable for
> writing code for Emacs.
>
> The Rust Foundation has published a draft trademark policy.  They will
> apply this policy to all use of the Rust trademark, including towards
> documentation surrounding other implementations of the Rust language.

…

> 5.3.1 Events & Conferences
>
>   Events and conferences are a valuable opportunity to grow your network
>   and learning.  Please contact us at `Where to go for further
>   information' below if you would like to hold an event using the Marks
>   in the event name.

Most of the other parts sound like “Firefox if Javascript were named
Firefox Script”, which is mainly annoying, but this one is awful.

Imagine being an organizer of an existing long-standing Rust event that
helped to get Rust where it is today and now being expected to crawl to
them asking for permission to keep the name of the event.

Best wishes,
Arne
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