xemacs vs emacs

[David Kastrup]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:

> David Kastrup writes:
>  > "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:
>
>  > > What is so hard to understand about "IP == proprietary"?
>  > 
>  > That it is nonsense?
>
> FYI, David, English is not a programming language, it is a natural
> language.  In natural languages, communication is expected to be a
> *cooperative* effort, with speakers making reasonable attempts to be
> accurate, and listeners making reasonable attempts to resolve
> inaccuracies.

"What is so hard to understand about ..." is not a reasonable attempt to
resolve inaccuracies.  My long explanation _why_ this is nonsense was
such an attempt.  You simply cut it away.  For an "attempt to resolve
inaccuracies", that would count negatively.

> Obviously, your expectations and mine do not match.  I don't care
> which of us is being unreasonable,

Now that is very obvious.

> let's just end this thread here.

It is likely that everything pertaining to the actual matter at hand has
been written already.  The rest is in the hand of the reader.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum