From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: James Lu <jamtlu@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Requesting a paid version of Emacs
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2021 01:31:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1lFWen-0007Ie-Ju@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANQHGB22WKhLut4SH4UiXJQ-rCU55aJ3Kym7LoVE5hYE31qh5A@mail.gmail.com> (message from James Lu on Wed, 24 Feb 2021 11:14:03 -0500)
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> Furthermore, most of the sync solutions for org-mode recommend proprietary
> Dropbox or Google Drive.
Dropbox and Google Drive are services, not programs. The distinction
of "proprietary" or "free" does not apply to them, at least not
straightforwardly. We define exactly what it means to say a program
is proprietary, but I don't know what it means to say that a service
is proprietary. Would you please explain what it is you mean in this
case?
Our moral requirement is not to recommend running any nonfree
software. It is possible -- I don't know -- that these solutions
involve running some nonfree software. If so, we should not recommend
them in Emacs or in Org mode.
Is there text in Emacs, or in Org mode, which recommends these? If
so, we should check the facts about them. Could you please show me
that text, and say precisely where it is published? With that info we
could start checking.
--
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)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-26 6:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-24 15:48 Requesting a paid version of Emacs James Lu
2021-02-24 16:14 ` James Lu
2021-02-26 6:31 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2021-02-26 9:06 ` Robert Pluim
2021-02-28 6:11 ` Richard Stallman
2021-03-01 0:23 ` Matt Armstrong
2021-03-02 6:24 ` Richard Stallman
2021-02-24 16:30 ` dick.r.chiang
2021-02-25 4:53 ` Ag Ibragimov
2021-03-01 5:19 ` Richard Stallman
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