Re: My resignation from Emacs development

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

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  > Names are important.  They have power.  To take somebody's/somthing's
  > name and misuse it is an exercise of aggression.  Try using "Emacs" or
  > even "free software" to mean something different, and see just how
  > quickly you would hear back from Richard Stallman.

Is this really the case?  I am trying to figure out what concrete events
those descriptions could refer to, and I can't be sure.  Depending on
the details of the practcie in quetsion, I might say that it causes
a big problem.  Or I might not.

But if everyone involved is motivated by good will, I would not call
it "aggression".  That word asserts injustice and bad will.

I'm sure the people now disagreeing here all want to make Emacs as
good as can be, and that all are pursuing goals that are
indirividually desirable, even if they conflict in practice.

So let's see if we can find a compromise solution that gives the best
of both goals.

-- 
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)