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: Fri, 09 Oct 2020 23:53:29 -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> <835z7qfp6h.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="8034"; 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 Sat Oct 10 05:56:44 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 1kR5zv-0001xa-Kl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 10 Oct 2020 05:56:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37574 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kR5zu-0004u6-LS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 09 Oct 2020 23:56:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39342) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kR5x2-0001kT-N4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Oct 2020 23:53:48 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:59272) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kR5x2-00083N-CU; Fri, 09 Oct 2020 23:53:44 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kR5wn-0002lL-FN; Fri, 09 Oct 2020 23:53:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: <835z7qfp6h.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sun, 04 Oct 2020 10:03:34 +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:257299 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 we should let the user decide whether such risks are relevant > in each and every case, and whether these risks, if they exist, are > worth taking. I agree. I am not saying users should not be able to talk with servers for dictionary lookup. I am discussing a different question; whether we should designate "use an internet server" as the default way to do a job for which there is a natural local method. I say we must never do that, because using the internet should always be something one makes a special decision to do. -- 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)