User:Zeth
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To be found often in UK, and sometimes in other places.
Notability has become a weird god.
At the start of March. The XEmacs article was about nothing but the split between GNU and Lucid, not any actual description of what XEmacs is and what it does and how it was developed. Since then I have almost completely rewritten it (under my IP 82.36.234.82 ) and I am keeping an eye on it. There is still a lot of the article dedicated to the history of the split, hopefully now it is more neutral. It certainly does not need any more about that.
One problem is that the history does not match up to the rhetorical use of XEmacs as an example of a fork, so it is best not to overegg it as a canonical example of a fork. Indeed the history of using it as an example seems to be bigger in people's minds than the actual history.
The modern GNU Emacs and XEmacs were both forks in one sense, both were based on the unreleased version of Emacs version 19 but both deliberately differed from it. When species A mutates, you now have B and C (rather than A and B). Anyway, I have now read far more than I ever needed to know about the history of XEmacs, especially considering that I am a GNU Emacs user!
Logging Out
I believe that the current fashion among some people of differential treatment to those logged in is a very bad mojo. Changes should be judged solely on the merits of the text. Therefore I decided to do contribution not logged in for a year to see what the difference was. Quite a lot, actually, people can quite bigoted against anonymous users and even use robots to reverse your edits without even reading them. However, if you stick with it and write the best text then you can still contribute.
In this time I had two main IP Addresses that were not used by any one else, I also had many other IP addresses on the go:
* Click here to read my contributions to Jan 1 2006 and June 2006.
* Click here to read my contributions from 26 June 2006 until 17 April 2007.
Now I have decided to start logging in. But I will still keep an eye on the situation regarding the mistreatment of anonymous users.
Lets have some boxes
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