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: Tue, 20 Oct 2020 01:10:30 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20201016142436.187b8210@argon> <20201016152523.6fdfef65@argon> <6142a27f-c53b-35bf-1038-5f047395e868@yandex.ru> <20201016204531.77fab05b@argon> <725aa7c4-321f-4483-5a21-a148ff7f119b@yandex.ru> <20201016213312.603595fe@argon> <20201017054446.GW11061@protected.rcdrun.com> 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="1626"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: mve1@runbox.com, dgutov@yandex.ru, bugs@gnu.support, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: thibaut.verron@gmail.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 20 07:11:16 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 1kUjvY-0000JS-F5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 20 Oct 2020 07:11:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45706 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kUjvX-0002XG-EE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 20 Oct 2020 01:11:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:32916) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kUjur-0001n4-9W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Oct 2020 01:10:33 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:49178) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kUjup-0004md-K3; Tue, 20 Oct 2020 01:10:31 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kUjuo-0000SX-Kg; Tue, 20 Oct 2020 01:10:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Thibaut Verron on Sun, 18 Oct 2020 10:36:53 +0200) 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:258155 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. ]]] > But a feature available in a non-free program can be a good feature > which we might want to add to free programs (assuming that it is > possible without compromising on freedom, of course). The feature, in the abstract, might be good in the sense of convenient, and we might well want to implement it. However, it is clearer to call it "convenient" rather than "good", to delineate the contrast with the ethical meaning of "good". -- 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)