From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Rename `eww' to `web' Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 16:30:26 -0400 Message-ID: References: > <86wqpdq768.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1372537873 22741 80.91.229.3 (29 Jun 2013 20:31:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 20:31:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Nic Ferrier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 29 22:31:15 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ut1nf-0005hm-H0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Jun 2013 22:31:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41369 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ut1nf-0007Pn-5A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Jun 2013 16:31:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53760) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ut1mx-0006ek-1j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jun 2013 16:30:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ut1mw-0006rD-1A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jun 2013 16:30:30 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:51769) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ut1mv-0006r3-VK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jun 2013 16:30:29 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ut1ms-0004v3-Jo; Sat, 29 Jun 2013 16:30:26 -0400 In-reply-to: <86wqpdq768.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> (message from Nic Ferrier on Sat, 29 Jun 2013 16:15:59 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:161295 Archived-At: [ 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. I already have an HTTP client called web. So it would be a little unfair to just pinch the name? Making things easy for users must take priority. We cannot regard a name as somehow "occupied" by code that we don't somehow distribute or recommend. Even if we did somehow distribute or recommend that code, we might still want to use that name for something else. Making Emacs good for users is they point. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.