From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Van L Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Off Topic (was: bug#31544) Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 13:44:07 +1000 Message-ID: <95D1617C-FA91-4BEA-A367-7B92729ADC7F@scratch.space> References: <7D0B397D-5D1B-4B8C-93B6-1CA207DD552A@scratch.space> <6271469D-6B02-4334-828E-D81816143734@scratch.space> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 9.3 \(3124\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1527046948 3171 195.159.176.226 (23 May 2018 03:42:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 03:42:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs developers To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 23 05:42:24 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fLKfP-0000fb-Cq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 May 2018 05:42:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59051 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fLKhU-00071f-1V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 May 2018 23:44:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49582) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fLKhG-00070z-DA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 May 2018 23:44:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fLKhD-0003kE-Aw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 May 2018 23:44:18 -0400 Original-Received: from relay10.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.178.230]:46575) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fLKhD-0003jV-4A; Tue, 22 May 2018 23:44:15 -0400 Original-Received: from epi.local (123-243-244-176.tpgi.com.au [123.243.244.176]) (Authenticated sender: van@scratch.space) by relay10.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id ECD99240002; Wed, 23 May 2018 05:44:11 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3124) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 217.70.178.230 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:225589 Archived-At: > Richard Stallman writes: >=20 > We don't have adequate free software for voice recognition, as far as > I know, and we should not add Emacs support for any such nonfree > program. I get the demand to be free. > Perhaps the inconvenience has to do with combining the complex > parts of the regexp with the simple strings to match. Is that so? Imagine this. The scene is one of a room full of twenty Agile = Programmers (who may not be any good at all). There are two Scrum = Masters and the Agile Coach. They are across realtime data tracking = 150,000 objects, such as, people. In a different world. There is free software voice-recognition (after a = long slog to transition from nonfree). The secretaries from the 1980s = interact with Emacs on data of equal size and complexity (and there are = no charlatans at Theranos which is showing signs of success after a long = slog :-).=