Marcin Borkowski writes: > On 2015-01-22, at 17:41, Jose E. Marchesi wrote: > >> *NOTE* It's about an app which is *not* open source (some parts of code >> will opened, see below). If you have a problem with that, you can stop >> reading right about now... >> >> Please stop using the GNU mailing lists to promote proprietary software. > > It might be the case that I do not understand something. > > AFAIR, there was a recent discussion on another GNU mailing list about > usability of Emacs under Windows. (Maybe it was somewhere else, I'm not > sure, then my question is theoretical.) A few people claimed that Emacs > under Windows is fully functional and works well. Would this also be > considered "promoting proprietary software"? The point here is that the FSF is a charitable nonprofit which promotes free software. Their servers have usage guidelines: https://savannah.gnu.org/register/requirements.php Basically, helping Free software to work on non-Free operating systems is ok, as long as the non-Free OS is not the proprietary target and the software works best (or equal) on Free systems. Supporting or advertising non-Free software is not ok. So the opinions of our hosts are pretty clear.