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: [ELPA] New package: repology.el Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 02:48:34 -0500 Message-ID: References: <6193374b-a60d-ba82-91b5-afdede18e3bb@yandex.ru> <72871d3a-3b6a-d6fd-01cc-4248f817923c@yandex.ru> <801f93f3-8c1f-5f5f-6351-e1169bc309ae@yandex.ru> 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="12994"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: ams@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru, ulm@gentoo.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Arthur Miller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 07 08:50:18 2021 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 1kxQ3l-0003IG-SO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 08:50:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38136 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxQ3k-0001YQ-P7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 02:50:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58452) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxQ2A-0000K2-AK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 02:48:39 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:51307) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxQ29-0000II-Oq; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 02:48:37 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kxQ26-0004im-QZ; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 02:48:35 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Arthur Miller on Wed, 06 Jan 2021 21:36:00 +0100) 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:262649 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. ]]] > Since you like dictionaries a lot, maybe you should look up word > "information" and word "promotion" in some. They are two different > things. The two are not the same thing, but providing information about something often has the effect of promoting it. The node References in the GNU Coding standards explains the relationship, including its subtleties. > However dogmaticism and stigmaticism has never proven to be useful in > the long run. On contrary it is unproductive and potentially harmful. It > holds for every aspect of human life. Maybe so, but what the node References actually says is not dogmatic. It also does not criticize anyone. It merely states our policy about how to handle such issues. > So is neither ultra-radicalism, it has tendency to alienate people. I agree, but we are not as radical as you're saying. > As a curiosa, I wonder what do you think, how much of medical software > that powers life-holding machines in hospitals is *Free*? Should we > erase all those chips and hardrives? What do you think about *that* > unethical software? Does anyone here advocate that? I don't. I understand that you feel offended. But responding to that by fighting "back" will only increase hostility. Someone else will fight "back" by attacking you. Please, everyone, stop attacking other people. If you can't stay calm, stay quiet. -- 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)