From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Windows emacs-25.1 i686 vs x86_64?
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2016 15:16:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mvhbz5fy.fsf@russet.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1c3l69-0007Aj-Gk@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 07 Nov 2016 09:40:33 -0500")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>
> > As long as Emacs officially supports Windows 9x, it is implicitly
> > endorsing it. Because the basis of the GNU project is political and
> > moral, it is important that we send the correct messages to our users.
>
> Our ethical objection to Windows applies equally to all versions.
> We consider technical issues secondary.
If this is true, then in this case, we should be making the decision on
the basis of the technical issue, as the primary issue (that of ethics)
makes no difference here.
Phil
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2016-11-05 8:16 ` Windows emacs-25.1 i686 vs x86_64? Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-05 22:26 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-06 3:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-06 8:10 ` Paul Eggert
2016-11-06 15:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-06 16:13 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-11-06 16:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-06 17:01 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-11-06 17:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-06 18:26 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-11-06 18:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-06 19:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-06 20:15 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-11-07 14:40 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-07 15:16 ` Phillip Lord [this message]
2016-11-08 13:53 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-06 16:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-06 18:50 ` John Wiegley
2016-11-07 14:42 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-06 21:54 ` Paul Eggert
2016-11-06 21:57 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-07 14:43 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-07 15:15 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-07 15:26 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-08 13:53 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-08 14:52 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-08 15:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-09 16:50 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-09 17:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-09 17:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-10 15:19 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-09 7:00 ` martin rudalics
2016-11-15 10:26 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-07 16:34 ` Paul Eggert
2016-11-07 18:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-07 19:02 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-07 19:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-07 21:54 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-07 19:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-07 20:02 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-07 20:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-07 20:22 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-07 20:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-08 3:48 ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-11-08 15:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-07 18:49 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-08 13:55 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-08 14:34 ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-06 21:50 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-06 4:13 ` Noam Postavsky
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