From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Does service lookup by name work on Windows now? Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 22:31:08 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83ef8z6394.fsf@gnu.org> <83bm43620q.fsf@gnu.org> <83a7jn60iu.fsf@gnu.org> <87zhrlgi2q.fsf@portable.galex-713.eu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="170061"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, theophilusx@gmail.com, rpluim@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alexandre Garreau Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 30 04:31:15 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gogap-000i4y-HY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Jan 2019 04:31:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59800 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gogao-00026P-EZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2019 22:31:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:37667) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gogaj-000269-52 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2019 22:31:09 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:37568) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gogai-0002wk-5W; Tue, 29 Jan 2019 22:31:08 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gogai-0008K7-0m; Tue, 29 Jan 2019 22:31:08 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87zhrlgi2q.fsf@portable.galex-713.eu> (message from Alexandre Garreau on Mon, 28 Jan 2019 12:03:25 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] 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:232817 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. ]]] > So to make the thing not fully negative, would it be useful to recall > that sometimes we make free software work on Windows so that to offer a > taste of freedom, and state in this text that in when doing so, we > prefer to keep this software working on older versions? It may be useful to mention that point. > Then recalling it is nowadays commonplace for proprietary software to > force upgrades (often with multiple anti-features), that this is an > anti-feature, that this implies an universal backdoor, and that is a > good reason to go GNU/Linux instead of Windows 8/10, so you might hook > there the anti-windows-8/10 campaign. I think there is no need to spread it so far. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)