Re: Emacs design and architecture

[Richard Stallman]

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  > >>   WebRender is a GPU-based 2D rendering engine written in Rust from
  > >>   Mozilla. Firefox, the research web browser Servo, and other GUI
  > >>   frameworks draw with it. emacs-ng use it as a new experimental graphic
  > >>   backend to leverage GPU hardware.

If that means it is designed to require or encourage using a GPU to
display through, that is a moral problem.  Most GPUs require the user
to install nonfree firmware.  GNU software must not suggest users do
that.  So we cannot make GNU Emacs depend on that.

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Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
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