From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: PL support Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 01:14:17 -0400 Message-ID: References: <9mmFgzvrBwjt_n_VJyaJdXINraNi5HsGpwq-0MLeKiJA7kG2BQA4uywrzjyz7lpRS0OZDpjEi8lspOKYUA7P_QsODsDew_8nbH960G55fmY=@protonmail.com> <83imh5hby1.fsf@gnu.org> <2e4e8ce9-d857-f3e3-31cf-a40dee67bd25@yandex.ru> <83y2q1dsvh.fsf@gnu.org> <2468efa6-7dbd-8634-44cc-586bb6985f49@yandex.ru> <83pnbddrfd.fsf@gnu.org> <83k11ldpxs.fsf@gnu.org> <83imh5dnun.fsf@gnu.org> <2c09354e7994f0e61271ab0078256a9dc4202171.camel@k-7.ch> <9f1e538a-eb34-8d65-b3bb-87fd2f3690cf@dancol.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="80410"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: casouri@gmail.com, seb@k-7.ch, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Colascione Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu May 14 07:16:01 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 1jZ6Dv-000Kkl-RT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 14 May 2020 07:15:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55590 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jZ6Du-0001L1-TA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 14 May 2020 01:15:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60928) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jZ6CM-0006qb-Vc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 May 2020 01:14:22 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54407) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jZ6CM-00021V-Is; Thu, 14 May 2020 01:14:22 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jZ6CH-0007Gk-S6; Thu, 14 May 2020 01:14:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Daniel Colascione on Tue, 12 May 2020 21:32:05 -0700) 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:250208 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. ]]] > The opposite of impact is irrelevance. Do you want free software to be > relevant? Only if it is relevant in the right way. We are bombarded with pressure to make our work "relevant" by someone else's standards. > Who's going to use software that's inferior to alternatives? What does "inferior" mean? How do we judge superiority? In the free software movement, we judge by freedom first; I think you are judging by convenience first. At least it looks that way. Who's going to use [free] software that is inferior [in convenience] to [nonfree] alternatives? I will! Free software activists will. Because running the nonfree programs is out of the question. A nonfree program is no program at all. A free program is better than no program. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)