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: Proposal for an Emacs User Survey Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2020 00:19:22 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20201016130235.06218dae@argon> <20201016142436.187b8210@argon> <20201016152523.6fdfef65@argon> <6142a27f-c53b-35bf-1038-5f047395e868@yandex.ru> <20201016204531.77fab05b@argon> <20201016190846.GI11061@protected.rcdrun.com> <70ea157a-967c-4145-9dc7-1cfc215ad9a0@default> <20201016201547.GP11061@protected.rcdrun.com> <56c8a227-6c1d-4456-8c13-d0c87186c653@default> 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="8677"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: mve1@runbox.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, thibaut.verron@gmail.com, bugs@gnu.support, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 17 06:30:09 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 1kTdr7-0002A6-Sa for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2020 06:30:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59714 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kTdr6-0006Ei-Uw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2020 00:30:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41434) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kTdgh-0000rj-NC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2020 00:19:23 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:49435) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kTdgh-0002Ck-Bf; Sat, 17 Oct 2020 00:19:23 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kTdgg-0007Jc-HN; Sat, 17 Oct 2020 00:19:22 -0400 In-Reply-To: <56c8a227-6c1d-4456-8c13-d0c87186c653@default> (message from Drew Adams on Fri, 16 Oct 2020 13:59:31 -0700 (PDT)) 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:257900 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 is not, strictly speaking, false to think about Emacs in ordinary economic terms. But it is not very illuminating to do so, since for the most part what we do is not driven by economic motives. That discussion is not pertinent to developing Emacs; would you please take it off this list? -- 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)