From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: ams@gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 16:26:33 -0400 Message-ID: References: <9mmFgzvrBwjt_n_VJyaJdXINraNi5HsGpwq-0MLeKiJA7kG2BQA4uywrzjyz7lpRS0OZDpjEi8lspOKYUA7P_QsODsDew_8nbH960G55fmY=@protonmail.com> <87d07xamrg.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <878silajdl.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87tv18pyh4.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83zhaih0oz.fsf@gnu.org> <83pnbegsvm.fsf@gnu.org> <547c9116-c1c3-8563-4aee-c62aa2302861@yandex.ru> <838shybfdo.fsf@gnu.org> <3f79ff6e-2471-fa6d-08ff-682afd504eca@yandex.ru> <83v9l29yz3.fsf@gnu.org> <87o8qujs0p.fsf@randomsample> <83lfly9vvs.fsf@gnu.org> <835zd29rjb.fsf@gnu.org> <6ddce28d-2820-ff5b-7350-60608d511b89@yandex.ru> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="78964"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, deng@randomsample.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon May 11 22:27:30 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jYF1O-000KQA-UI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 11 May 2020 22:27:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39214 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jYF1N-0001Qp-TW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 11 May 2020 16:27:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33002) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jYF0X-0000Uh-Vq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 May 2020 16:26:38 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:46642) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jYF0W-0008CJ-My; Mon, 11 May 2020 16:26:36 -0400 Original-Received: from ams by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jYF0T-0002jP-Sl; Mon, 11 May 2020 16:26:34 -0400 In-reply-to: <6ddce28d-2820-ff5b-7350-60608d511b89@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Mon, 11 May 2020 23:03:56 +0300) 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:249891 Archived-At: > I don't think we should give up our standards to gain a couple of > marketing points. It's usability, not just marketing. Emacs seems quite usable to me. > It is completely backwards, IMO, to put that cart > ahead of the horse. We are supposed to develop high-quality software > first and advertising ourselves second, not the other way around. We're supposed to make our users' life better. That is achievable without giving up developing high-quality free software.