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: dict - Re: How to make Emacs popular again. Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2020 23:53:24 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87lfgqqsb4.fsf@posteo.net> <20201002160223.GH3520@protected.rcdrun.com> <83tuvbfzvg.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="40949"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: philipk@posteo.net, eduardoochs@gmail.com, bugs@gnu.support, spacibba@aol.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, torsten@myrkr.in-berlin.de, dgutov@yandex.ru, jamtlu@gmail.com To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 10 05:54:54 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 1kR5y9-000AXJ-VZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 10 Oct 2020 05:54:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60562 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kR5y9-0002ar-0T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 09 Oct 2020 23:54:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39272) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kR5wm-0001JG-Sz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Oct 2020 23:53:28 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:59265) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kR5wm-0007xd-HG; Fri, 09 Oct 2020 23:53:28 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kR5wi-0002kn-LE; Fri, 09 Oct 2020 23:53:24 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83tuvbfzvg.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 03 Oct 2020 12:00:19 +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:257296 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. ]]] > Doing so would require reinventing the wheel of reading the dictionary > files, something that dict servers already implement. Why not let the > server do its job? The point is, whoever decided to say this was "the server's job" was following a dangerous design philosophy. When some job can be done locally, we should not say that that job belongs to servers. -- 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)