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, 12 Oct 2015 15:59:11 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8737xuuw2y.fsf@rabkins.net> <87lhbmkrle.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87si5r22qh.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <5612CEA6.3010809@yandex.ru> <87egh95cze.fsf@gmail.com> <5612D36B.1030906@yandex.ru> <87a8rx5awg.fsf@gmail.com> <87a8rvu0ij.fsf@red-bean.com> <87wpuyq5e5.fsf@russet.org.uk> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1444679968 10187 80.91.229.3 (12 Oct 2015 19:59:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 19:59:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "John Wiegley" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 12 21:59:19 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 1ZljFe-0000tR-Ns for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 21:59:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58304 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZljFe-0003v5-Ax for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 15:59:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48321) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZljFa-0003ul-PR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 15:59:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZljFZ-0007A0-Ua for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 15:59:14 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:46758) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZljFY-00079d-Jp; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 15:59:12 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ZljFX-00054T-Lb; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 15:59:11 -0400 In-reply-to: (johnw@newartisans.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:191387 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'm beginning to think GNU Emacs will need someone who also cares about the > freedom argument first, and the technical needs second, because I'm very much > concerned I would chomping at the bit to move forward, It's a question of which direction is "forward". I want to move forward on the GNU Project, of which GNU Emacs is a part. Most of the time, making Emacs better to use is exactly the way Emacs can move the GNU Project forward, but once in a rare while there's an exception. Someone posted a list of four cases that have occurred in GNU Emacs over three decades. -- 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.