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 13:07:25 -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> <87r3lazla7.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1444064864 3300 80.91.229.3 (5 Oct 2015 17:07:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 17:07:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jens.k.loewe@googlemail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 05 19:07:35 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 1Zj9Ed-0005pa-Ig for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2015 19:07:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46709 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zj9Ed-00036E-5K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2015 13:07:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56966) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zj9EZ-000366-Tv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2015 13:07:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zj9EZ-0006oh-2o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2015 13:07:31 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:49957) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zj9EU-0006nC-OO; Mon, 05 Oct 2015 13:07:26 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Zj9ET-0006Tc-8I; Mon, 05 Oct 2015 13:07:25 -0400 In-reply-to: <87r3lazla7.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from David Kastrup on Sun, 04 Oct 2015 17:49:20 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.10 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:190945 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 think you've put it rightly and clearly. We don't exclude people who use proprietary software, or even people who develope proprietary software, from using Emacs or even from developing Emacs. I will mention one abstract subpoint where I disagree with what you said. > At any rate, freedom does not mean a > different prescribed path but a choice. I think that defining freedom as "choice" is a mistaken approach. All else being equal, more freedom generally means you have more choices, but defining freedom in terms of the number of choices leads to paradoxes. I define freedom as "having control of one's own life". Freedom in one's computing means having control over how it is done, which requires control over the software that does it. Your church analogy was a good one, but let's make sure no one misunderstands it as more than an analogy. The Church of Emacs is pure humor. -- 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.