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: [ELPA] New package: splash-screen Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2020 23:50:45 -0400 Message-ID: References: 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="2410"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Nicolas P. Rougier" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 21 05:52:44 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 1kKCse-0000WR-7c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 21 Sep 2020 05:52:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51694 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kKCsd-0003sp-AP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2020 23:52:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53918) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kKCqn-0002Et-TO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2020 23:50:49 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:47321) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kKCqm-0002Nj-FR; Sun, 20 Sep 2020 23:50:49 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kKCqj-0001ME-A5; Sun, 20 Sep 2020 23:50:45 -0400 In-Reply-To: (nicolas.rougier@inria.fr) 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:256275 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. ]]] > > I think Emacs should emphasize the fact that it's Free rather > > than > > gratis and the underlying ideas of freedom and the copyleft > > technique to > > enforce it. > But is it the right place to do so? The right place to do this is where the most people will see it. The ultimate goal of GNU Emacs is not success as such, not "making good software" as such. It is victory for freedom. -- 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)