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: How to make Emacs popular again. Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2020 23:52:45 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87o8ls1vvq.fsf@posteo.net> <20200926145302.sjrwjrguf5ialc25@Ergus> <3201a9fe-de19-d553-0be1-d379f182fd47@yandex.ru> <84273aa2-24a9-7584-18b9-03a5ac783d62@yandex.ru> <835z7vjrg3.fsf@gnu.org> <83tuvegkmo.fsf@gnu.org> 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="11450"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: philipk@posteo.net, eduardoochs@gmail.com, spacibba@aol.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru, jamtlu@gmail.com To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 02 05:55:25 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 1kOCAH-0002sU-5H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2020 05:55:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33452 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kOCAG-0005j4-5q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 23:55:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50612) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kOC7i-0001rb-Nq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 23:52:46 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:39944) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kOC7i-0004IJ-E9; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 23:52:46 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kOC7h-0003N9-8B; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 23:52:45 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83tuvegkmo.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Thu, 01 Oct 2020 16:07:27 +0300) 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:256917 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's not like the server calculates something that could > be subverted by a server we don't control. What harm could be done by > looking up a word? The server could report that you did so. And how is it different from the command we have > that queries an Internet search engine (M-s M-w)? One difference is that you can, and should, have a local dictionary and you can't have a local search engine. Another difference is that you are likely to want to check definitions very often, and searching less often. Or from asking an > SMTP server to send an email message? There are so many differences I don't have time to write them. -- 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)