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: Sat, 16 Jan 2021 00:14:51 -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="36579"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: ams@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, ulm@gentoo.org, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Arthur Miller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 16 06:16:29 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 1l0dwr-0009Os-CC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 16 Jan 2021 06:16:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57798 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l0dwq-00065U-Bh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 16 Jan 2021 00:16:28 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40692) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l0dvK-0005cC-73 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jan 2021 00:14:54 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:47969) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l0dvJ-0001tn-Of; Sat, 16 Jan 2021 00:14:53 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1l0dvH-0004Ca-Pz; Sat, 16 Jan 2021 00:14:52 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Arthur Miller on Fri, 15 Jan 2021 15:52:10 +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:263088 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. ]]] > > This is pertinent to the general topic of "providing information" > > but it is not pertinent to the specific topic, which is > > providing the information that there is a nonfree program > > called Foo which does X, Y and Z (which might be something > > you'd like to do, you being someone who doesn't hesitate > > to run a nonfree program. > Why do you think I don't hesitate to run a nonfree program? :-) I don't. I was using "you" to refer to a hypothetical person who doesn't hesitate to run a nonfree program. Maybe the smiley means you understand that. I am not sure. > I am not arguing for use of non-free programs; I am arguing about > importance of having a consistent and sustainable philosophy useful as a > set of guiding rules, insted of something that is left to subjective > interpretation. Requiring a judgment call, requiring interpretation, is not inconsistent. Many criteria that make sense for human judgment cannot be stated in a rigorously objective way. There are points where we _must_ appeal to human judgment because we don't know a batter way. What is the specific point? -- 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)