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: Grammar checking Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2023 23:12:38 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87sfdnyuxc.fsf@posteo.de> <83sfdl2z26.fsf@gnu.org> <58158ae49808189da7b2@heytings.org> <83mt3t2xz1.fsf@gnu.org> <86jzyxxqir.fsf@gmail.com> <58158ae4986fa602fe47@heytings.org> 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="33494"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: gregory@heytings.org, nasser.alkmim@gmail.com, eliz@gnu.org, m.eliachevitch@posteo.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lynn Winebarger Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 02 05:12:59 2023 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 1pio9L-0008Wq-5s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 02 Apr 2023 05:12:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pio92-0004qk-UP; Sat, 01 Apr 2023 23:12:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pio91-0004oq-Gq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Apr 2023 23:12:39 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pio91-0006H4-7q; Sat, 01 Apr 2023 23:12:39 -0400 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=y9fMwTrygS1niUiJSdDHrScWlyLa68cztiibeokjFWA=; b=qIOtxPDh1byN pFDNyICycSBC7/KOsDdKxYhztxcz9oZ9b38qyLtRqnrdd0mKfoksPUYch9OP8DFMQJjXBKZiTrViR 3W4ULeyVd/uim85QzHu6v9pAvW+TAZ5xGVusBwF1Q47mSVnbCNmz0DFVGuI+PCa64tce0qs2P76+Z Tbd7iJj79L/9Ew1k4oarJStDYeaagmIhSO2obA0EAFlqSYg4FflDuAiC72lnoI3ljTuE7U6+CX5m0 E6YKI0EqvXndV89mrDL54PokldcxAjvPywg7ZJvpfFH/0dCxsCd/qQTpP3eHeX6SCQqPRQcwIkDAu GEW7zeTJGJ/NNnWmse7dcg==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pio90-00080k-Ma; Sat, 01 Apr 2023 23:12:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Lynn Winebarger on Sat, 1 Apr 2023 08:59:50 -0400) 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:305028 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. ]]] > LanguageTool isn't proprietary software, but it is used for SaaSS > where the "premium" tier appears to use rule sets that are not > released with the base tool. We certainly don't want Emacs to lead people to submit to practices like that. If the released (and free) LanguageTool _program_ gives adequate results, we could make Emacs support working with that. But we should take pains _not_ to support the kind of communication that that SaaSS server offers. LanguageTool.org is very clear in using > the term "open source" rather than "free" to describe the software > (and configuration files) for its "Basic" service. That means they don't agree with our philosophy. Given the facts you've described, that is no surprise. But we don't need to reject a free program just because its developers disagree with our philosophy. -- 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)