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: "Open records", "good government principles", "corporate culture" Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2020 01:16:27 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20201209125516.lenqswi7fhiscbr2@E15-2016.optimum.net> <20201210063923.vkja5dwddloiu4sw@E15-2016.optimum.net> 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="31611"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Boruch Baum Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 11 07:23:09 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 1knbpd-00086e-CH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2020 07:23:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52274 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1knbpc-0006Vu-Ek for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2020 01:23:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49674) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1knbjD-0002CL-Op for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2020 01:16:31 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:56715) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1knbjD-0006ZN-H7; Fri, 11 Dec 2020 01:16:31 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1knbj9-0004Rj-N3; Fri, 11 Dec 2020 01:16:27 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20201210063923.vkja5dwddloiu4sw@E15-2016.optimum.net> (message from Boruch Baum on Thu, 10 Dec 2020 01:39:23 -0500) 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:260676 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 have good reasons for doing what I do, but you might not appreciate them since they are based on a context unlike the projects you have experience with. Most free software projects have no goal, no agenda, except to be useful and successful. Many define whoever develops them as in charge. Most of them describe their work as "open source" and believe that the main virtue is "openness". They have developed practices which fit that context. The GNU Project is very different from that. I started it to develop a free operating system, GNU, for a political cause: free software (free as in freedom). Every GNU package is part of this effort and has this as its main goal. Not "openness". This situation has consequences that may not be obvious. Treating the project like those "open source" projects would make for big trouble. Nonetheless, you might know ways I could handle this better. If I explain the situation and its particular problems, maybe you could suggest some. You have no obligation to spend time on this, but if you want to, please let's talk by voice -- to save time and hands. -- 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)