Readit NewsI think this is a uncharitable take. I don't feel at all that the maintainers have this level of disdain for non-free OSes. Just type C-h n and you can see work done for non-free OSes (e.g. "'NSSpeechRecognitionUsageDescription' now included in "Info.plist" (macOS).")
I don't think there'd be pushback on bug fixes. I think it's only new features that would only exist on macOS that get pushback.
As someone who have tried upstreaming a patch for Emacs on macOS (to add a feature that already existed on Linux), I can bitterly say that at least some of the maintainers do have a disdain for non-free OSes and that it makes it contributing patches for macOS as miserable as possible.
The patch was adding xwidget webkit support for macOS Cocoa[0], which I iterated for the next few months[1], only to side-rail into a discussion on macOS/GCC and GNUStep support policy[2], and I fizzled out.
That was abt 5 years ago, and I’ve never touched on the Emacs codebase since.
[0]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2019-05/msg00...
[1]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2019-07/threa...
[2]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2019-08/msg00...
Just for people who are reading this and leading to believe that this might be true, the link that this user is providing[0] is produced by a group called KCPAC[1], a blatantly Korean alt-right group.
Rebutting fake news takes so much more time than spreading them.
This is a blatantly false comment. For the sake of other viewers on HN that is not familiar with Korean politics, this is totally fake (and is probably pushing the views of the Korean alt-right).
United States sharply criticized Yoon after his unconstitutional martial law declaration, publishing pretty strong remarks that it was illegimate[0]. They have consistently spoke (in diplomatic language) that they do not support Yoon until he was impeached.
Impeaching Yoon was supported by 75% of the country [1] and anti-Yoon protests were not seen as anti-US nor pro-China at all.
The newly elected president, Lee Jae Myung, is not seen as anti-US nor pro-China in Korea (he does have a less anti-China stance than his predecessor), and any claims of election fraud claim is baseless[2] and without evidence.
The few paragraphs on telegram groups are groups that are run by the alt-right that send reports of anti-Yoon social influencers to the CIA, arguing that they were anti-US and communists[3] (yes, the red fear and the cold war is still a thing in South Korea, thanks to the North Korean regime, no, we do not recognize North Korea as a sovereign state)
Yes people are affected due to the new visa process, PhD students big among the affected, but no, big businesses are not being blocked sending their workers to the US. Samsung is not struggling getting visas.
This is a totally baseless fake news. Please don’t let this information spread. Thanks.
[0]: https://www.reuters.com/world/us-says-south-koreas-yoon-badl...
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Yoon_Suk_Yeol#O...
[2]: https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.36RG6PF
[3]: https://koreaherald.com/article/10019148
———— Not trying to shoot the messenger, but the user has a history of getting flagged with far-right racial comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44405917, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44203934, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44203849
They also got flagged previously by arguing the sentiment of the Korean alt-right: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43431867
And also say that they submit AI-generated comments as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pkkkzip
I would not trust this person’s comments.
On the other side, there are many MacOS-specific features supported by Emacs, with the recently added dictation support being one of them. If a MacOS feature is missing, it's much more likely to be due to a lack of manpower than a desire to maintain feature parity with Linux.
[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44739359