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: Sat, 03 Oct 2020 23:38:51 -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> <83v9ftf6n9.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="14403"; 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 Sun Oct 04 05:42:16 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 1kOuue-0003ay-CJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2020 05:42:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34654 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kOuud-0002yF-Bv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2020 23:42:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54792) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kOurN-00070R-Q6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2020 23:38:53 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:34516) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kOurN-0008EW-4b; Sat, 03 Oct 2020 23:38:53 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kOurL-0004al-2O; Sat, 03 Oct 2020 23:38:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83v9ftf6n9.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 02 Oct 2020 10:07:06 +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:257006 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. ]]] There are other reasons why it is bad to adopt "talk to a server" as your default way to do something, and for bad the community to adopt "talk to a server" as its default recommendation and practice. Getting an answer over the network can take time. It can cost you money, in some circumstances. It can fail, if the network is having a problem. It can result in tracking your movements, if it requires you to activate a network connection that identifies and tracks you. It can be impossible, if you don't have a connection at that time or place. -- 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)