From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alastair Houghton Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: [OT] Whether those with gnu.org addresses in any way represent FSF (was: Re: asm-mode patch to allow per-file comment character setting from file locals) Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:18:34 +0100 Message-ID: References: <2E2BAEFF-FEAD-4616-87CD-3B77D2734256@alastairs-place.net> <19321565-3F93-4299-996F-8A2081C462AF@alastairs-place.net> <85bqsyfrhb.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <853beaf0c4.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <6C1D0482-9501-47E5-A79E-C40EF7B349A8@alastairs-place.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v750) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1150283946 26522 80.91.229.2 (14 Jun 2006 11:19:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:19:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 14 13:18:58 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FqTOg-0003Xn-Bi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:18:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FqTOf-0004Sy-Pm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 07:18:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FqTOU-0004Sp-Kj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 07:18:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FqTOS-0004Qd-11 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 07:18:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FqTOR-0004QZ-OP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 07:18:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [212.159.14.213] (helo=ptb-relay02.plus.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FqTXZ-0003sd-N8; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 07:28:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [213.162.110.205] (helo=[10.0.1.5]) by ptb-relay02.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1FqTON-0002IW-Eb; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:18:35 +0100 In-Reply-To: Original-To: Miles Bader X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.750) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:55883 Archived-At: On 14 Jun 2006, at 06:11, Miles Bader wrote: > Alastair Houghton writes: >> What I expect is that people with gnu.org addresses (who represent >> the >> FSF, right?) > > Not really, no. > > You seem to be thinking of GNU as some sort of business -- businesses > often maintain fairly close control over who has access to their > systems > and for what purposes they use them, and usually try to present a > unified public front. GNU is not like that. > > Rather maybe think of it like a FOO.edu address. Actually, that's *exactly* how I think of it. The behaviour of a student with a FOO.edu address reflects on the institution of which they are a part, and it's in that sense that people with gnu.org addresses represent the FSF. Kind regards, Alastair. -- http://www.alastairs-place.net