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: GNU Emacs distribution (was: My perspective as a mid-level user on pros/cons of different editors) Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 23:45:15 -0400 Message-ID: References: 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="64274"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: rudiwillalwaysloveyou@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Thomas Fitzsimmons Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu May 21 05:57:49 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 1jbcL7-000Gb6-K9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 21 May 2020 05:57:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45416 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jbcL6-0003Vq-LE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 20 May 2020 23:57:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53608) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jbc90-0006is-Sb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 May 2020 23:45:19 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:36508) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jbc8z-0003x9-Rd; Wed, 20 May 2020 23:45:18 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jbc8x-0007CK-VV; Wed, 20 May 2020 23:45:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Thomas Fitzsimmons on Wed, 20 May 2020 12:38:15 -0400) 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:251144 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. ]]] > Yes, GNU Emacs World should be a vanilla/core community run Emacs > distribution that "vendors" the Free world. There are several terms in that sentence whose concrete meaning I don't know. Given the wide variability of what this might mean, it could be an own-goal if we did it. Or maybe not. -- 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)