From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2021 21:33:49 +0200 Message-ID: <831re83j6q.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="5382"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: rms@gnu.org, ulm@gentoo.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, ams@gnu.org, arthur.miller@live.com, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Jean Louis Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 25 20:35:47 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1l47eM-0001FI-09 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2021 20:35:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55864 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l47eL-0002gq-2r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2021 14:35:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45112) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l47cw-00022F-7U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2021 14:34:18 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:59161) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l47cr-0003Cx-Tb; Mon, 25 Jan 2021 14:34:16 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:2927 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1l47cR-00069H-4l; Mon, 25 Jan 2021 14:33:50 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Jean Louis on Mon, 25 Jan 2021 20:59:14 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:263409 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2021 20:59:14 +0300 > From: Jean Louis > Cc: Ulrich Mueller , ams@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, > arthur.miller@live.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > A picture can be modified within an infinite space of possibilities. A book > > can be modified. A mathematical equation can be modified. > > > > None of the above are software. > > Software > > >From Wordnet dictionary: > > * Overview of noun software Sigh... The Free Software movement was born out of this great concept: that programs are expressions of ideas -- algorithms and methods for solving complex problems -- and that free exchange of those ideas benefits mankind, and therefore preventing this free exchange is harmful. Now tell me what kind of a useful idea that should be shared do you find in a data type definition contained in an XML schema, which is basically a label: when I say "string" I mean this and that? Is this what Free Software is about? Maybe that's a better food for thought than an abstract definition from Wordnet (which you also mis-interpret to mean that "data" there means the kind of data we have in a schema).