From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A new user perspective about "Changes for emacs 28" Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2020 22:38:28 -0400 Message-ID: References: <24302cf8-5ac8-4abd-83ce-3e33c51a8beb@default> <83k0x4mjsv.fsf@gnu.org> <831rjcmgn8.fsf@gnu.org> <20200909083521.fftcvhi6ec26a5wa@Ergus> <20200909084116.GC31381@tuxteam.de> <20200909100019.x6csfhtkpids3hbe@Ergus> <20200909103624.GA2322@tuxteam.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3404"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: spacibba@aol.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: tomas@tuxteam.de Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 10 04:39:05 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 1kGCUK-0000n2-Oi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2020 04:39:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46652 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kGCUJ-0006wr-RD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2020 22:39:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39216) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kGCTl-00065q-PD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2020 22:38:29 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:48889) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kGCTl-0003tZ-A6; Wed, 09 Sep 2020 22:38:29 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kGCTk-0007Zh-FT; Wed, 09 Sep 2020 22:38:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20200909103624.GA2322@tuxteam.de> (tomas@tuxteam.de) 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:254942 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. ]]] It is most unfortunate that any group of free software developers has started using Slack for discussions. Slack itself is nonfree software, which means unjust software. GNU packages must not recommend the use of Slack. To do so would be an own goal. > > The closest is the reddit channel where Eli interacts frequently. But of > > course there is not any link to that in the emacs site, the readme or > > anywhere. Is it possible to communicate through that channel without running any nonfree software? (Including Javascript software?) -- 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)