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: Emacs project mission (was Re: "If you're still seeing problems, please reopen.") Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 22:42:38 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20191118175639.08d02820@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <874kz0pa9y.fsf@gnus.org> <87sgmjyn60.fsf@gmx.de> <87imnezyt5.fsf@gmx.de> <835zjdz58t.fsf@gnu.org> <20191121175927.GA4836@ACM> <83d0dlxfcn.fsf@gnu.org> 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="87767"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, perry@piermont.com, michael.albinus@gmx.de, dgutov@yandex.ru, acm@muc.de, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 22 04:43:33 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 (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iXzr3-000Mg5-AR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Nov 2019 04:43:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47148 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iXzr1-00061I-Nt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 22:43:31 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55475) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iXzqD-00057t-T0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 22:42:42 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:47104) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iXzqC-0004eV-Kk; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 22:42:40 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iXzqA-0002xf-1F; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 22:42:38 -0500 In-Reply-To: <83d0dlxfcn.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Thu, 21 Nov 2019 20:18:48 +0200) 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: 2.1.23 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:242602 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. ]]] > We are not endorsing any of them when we ask our users to report bugs > and contribute code. We welcome and gratefully accept any such bug > reports and code contributions, and don't request those who contribute > to pledge allegiance to the ideals of the GNU Project or free software > in general. Exactly like becoming an official maintainer of a GNU > project does not require one to agree with the goals of GNU, it only > requires one to heed to the policies specified by the GNU Project. This is entirely true. However, this is a different issue from the one that was raised by the following cited text: > > I think the idea is that most people nowadays have some kind of > > account already -- either in gmail, or in facebook, or in one of the > > other services that GitLab is capable of using instead of a GitLab > > specific registration. -- Dr Richard Stallman Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)