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: On Contributing To Emacs Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2021 23:15:25 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83zgoopkwb.fsf@gnu.org> <874k6wsajh.fsf@posteo.net> <87o8536fry.fsf@yahoo.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="40095"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: xenodasein@tutanota.de Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 27 05:17:33 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 1n1hS0-000ACk-GY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 27 Dec 2021 05:17:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53666 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n1hRz-0005Pd-HQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 26 Dec 2021 23:17:31 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:32812) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n1hPx-0001GT-4W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Dec 2021 23:15:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=45048 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n1hPw-0003Di-RE; Sun, 26 Dec 2021 23:15:24 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=AOKFJU1i4bIOLSshUoMTdu86+Nz6XGtkhXwVmhS3p9U=; b=RY3k/Cl8v93t FKsCpq3qngTaqGwcTfwE4C64xC3ChWLob3pGCTtezB3D2lDT4i14l4wLXHoJQ9g2DBIO8vVT5J9wO yVGw/xRWry8QnFxRBblaDf+XaN49SNlL+mHci1RcLkMKJhEojt6WHV/eynJgAWFKFuQEJjqOg6yoG tFbQGwL15rM95tFB55UjrNTa+VcFYDsvgLzw8CH9jTGjFby2kpL3uRxecd+ZtESt4MACibz0busbq EVqjapuT2RfSBcmyu18+O40RIbHGIbE51BSw7ZFd5UgkpSGng3K9G8N0s6xLzd2ElQUCdfFI9X2cI 0JESux//NXDhIhxTo9n4wg==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n1hPx-0001bI-1Z; Sun, 26 Dec 2021 23:15:25 -0500 In-Reply-To: (xenodasein@tutanota.de) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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:283381 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. ]]] > Before analyzing its functionality, must we also take into account > how widely popular it is?  The first question is, "What job does the proposed functionality do?" The second is, "How do you use it?" Possible advantages (or disadvantages) come after those two questions. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)