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: New maintainer Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2015 13:04:57 -0400 Message-ID: References: <560CCEBA.9080607@online.de> <874miapdhs.fsf@openmailbox.org> <8737xuuw2y.fsf@rabkins.net> <87lhbmkrle.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87si5r22qh.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <8737xrweel.fsf@googlemail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1444064726 806 80.91.229.3 (5 Oct 2015 17:05:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 17:05:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: jens.k.loewe@googlemail.com (Jens K. Loewe) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 05 19:05:13 2015 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 1Zj9CI-0003rV-Ci for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2015 19:05:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46691 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zj9CH-0000zH-Di for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2015 13:05:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54339) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zj9CD-0000xw-3I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2015 13:05:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zj9C9-0004Hl-9q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2015 13:05:05 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:49029) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zj9C7-0004H3-V4; Mon, 05 Oct 2015 13:04:59 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Zj9C5-00077c-HM; Mon, 05 Oct 2015 13:04:57 -0400 In-reply-to: <8737xrweel.fsf@googlemail.com> (jens.k.loewe@googlemail.com) 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:190942 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. ]]] > Furthermore, shouldn't it be the right of a free user to use a non-free > system at his own will? We have never tried to people from running nonfree programs. You seem to be attacking something that didn't come from us. > I guess as a Windows and BSD user I'm out of the game though - I > disagree with some of the points the GPL makes and I'll always prefer > the BSD infrastructure to GNU; but I really like working with > Emacs. We are happy to accept contributions from BSD users -- I am sure you have seen this -- and BSD is sufficiently similar to GNU that it should not be an impediment in practice. It is simply a matter of whether you wish to contribute. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.