From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Windows emacs-25.1 i686 vs x86_64? Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2016 09:40:33 -0500 Message-ID: References: <6e2cffe5-942b-48d4-9ed5-ef39803bcd30@googlegroups.com> <87mvhgsf21.fsf@russet.org.uk> <8360o4monq.fsf@gnu.org> <87vaw4gq0j.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83oa1vlnkk.fsf@gnu.org> <87d1iba6od.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83ins2jq88.fsf@gnu.org> <87eg2p8swx.fsf@russet.org.uk> <831sypjmst.fsf@gnu.org> <83wpggip8j.fsf@gnu.org> <87pom8bn7q.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83r36oimof.fsf@gnu.org> <87lgwwbkzo.fsf@wanadoo.es> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1478529734 25301 195.159.176.226 (7 Nov 2016 14:42:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 14:42:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar?= Fuentes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 07 15:42:09 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c3l6z-0001DO-Ev for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 15:41:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54414 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c3l72-00010F-Gb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 09:41:28 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50663) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c3l6E-0000yx-Bq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 09:40:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c3l6D-0004J0-Ki for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 09:40:38 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:36934) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c3l6A-0004DH-3e; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 09:40:34 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1c3l69-0007Aj-Gk; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 09:40:33 -0500 In-reply-to: <87lgwwbkzo.fsf@wanadoo.es> (message from =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93sca?= =?utf-8?Q?r?= Fuentes on Sun, 06 Nov 2016 18:01:47 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:209245 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. ]]] > As long as Emacs officially supports Windows 9x, it is implicitly > endorsing it. Because the basis of the GNU project is political and > moral, it is important that we send the correct messages to our users. Our ethical objection to Windows applies equally to all versions. We consider technical issues secondary. As for security, in principle you can't trust any version of Windows because it is proprietary software. The universal back door was first detected in Windows 98, and is now in Windows 10. There is no reason to prefer the latter to the former. Whether versions before Windows 98 had the universal back door, we don't know. -- 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.