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 09:42:27 -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> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1478529881 21986 195.159.176.226 (7 Nov 2016 14:44:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 14:44:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Wiegley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 07 15:44:33 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 1c3l9Y-0001bQ-GV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 15:44:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54423 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c3l9b-0002vP-GM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 09:44:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51891) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c3l84-0002ON-FW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 09:42:33 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c3l83-00054z-Jc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 09:42:32 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:36999) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c3l80-00053F-1y; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 09:42:28 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1c3l7z-0007TR-6K; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 09:42:27 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from John Wiegley on Sun, 06 Nov 2016 10:50:37 -0800) 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:209246 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. ]]] > EZ> In any case, the non-removal of support for Windows 9X was an explicit > EZ> request from Richard, an opinion which AFAIU he still held 5 years ago: > Richard, do you still maintain this position? Yes. We support running our software on various versions of Windows and MacOS for the sake of users that want to run our programs there, but that does not mean an endorsement of those systems. On the contrary, we say they are unjust and we urge users to stop running them. We want to teach people to give the highest importance to the ethical issue, the injustice of nonfree software. Mere technical issues (such as state of maintenance) are all secondary, and we want to make our position on this clear. So we should not apply words such as "malpractice" to technical issues. Windows IS malpractice, and the worst malpractice is Windows 10. See http://gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.html. -- 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.