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: What is GNU ELPA? Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 23:57:57 -0400 Message-ID: References: <35DBF02E-44D7-41E5-A217-7D6EC84ED221@icloud.com> <07d7ff5d-dd57-00e7-933f-3188d57d6185@yandex.ru> <96f718b4-8ba9-7b9a-f940-7070e4a9a424@yandex.ru> <79db0457-e6ac-e555-93ac-167416da7b4b@yandex.ru> 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="66577"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: dgutov@yandex.ru, hmelman@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Arthur Miller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue May 19 05:58:29 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 1jatOf-000HEo-JA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 19 May 2020 05:58:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51610 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jatOe-0002Si-Lj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 18 May 2020 23:58:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55214) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jatOE-000205-LP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 May 2020 23:58:02 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:43312) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jatOE-0003cR-37; Mon, 18 May 2020 23:58:02 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jatO9-0000KO-Ad; Mon, 18 May 2020 23:57:57 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Arthur Miller on Mon, 18 May 2020 14:54:08 +0200) 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:250862 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. ]]] > What if non-free software does not have an alternative? Or there is one, > but most people don't use it anyway. We never refer people to nonfree software -- regardless of the details of the situation. If we can't recommend people a free method to do something, we recommend no method. If you look at directory.fsf.org, you will see we recommend thousands of free programs, and ZERO nonfree programs. Or if the software itself is free, > but it is on some company servers, like say gitlab. That is no problem. If people can download it from place X without running nonfree software, we can suggest they download it from place X. -- 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)