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: Microsoft buys GitHub Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2018 21:54:05 -0400 Message-ID: References: <837ened05p.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 1528249962 16353 195.159.176.226 (6 Jun 2018 01:52:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2018 01:52:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 06 03:52:38 2018 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 1fQNcr-00049W-5f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2018 03:52:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49959 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fQNex-0006B2-Uc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2018 21:54:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56302) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fQNeP-0006Av-8V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2018 21:54:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fQNeO-0002c5-GB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2018 21:54:13 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:56332) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fQNeH-0002XM-H0; Tue, 05 Jun 2018 21:54:05 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fQNeH-00027F-3i; Tue, 05 Jun 2018 21:54:05 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Mon, 04 Jun 2018 18:51:12 -0400) 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:226052 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 know people have been scarred by the protracted fight of the Windows > world against the Free world, but really Microsoft is probably no worse > than the majority of other companies nowadays. That's because the general standard of ethics has been getting ever lower in the computing field. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)