From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: "Göktuğ Kayaalp" <self@gkayaalp.com>
Cc: emacs-tangents@gnu.org, bugs@gnu.support, ulm@gentoo.org,
ams@gnu.org, arthur.miller@live.com, dgutov@yandex.ru,
eliz@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Privileges and practicalities [was: Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el]
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2021 01:41:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1ky7w5-0006G9-HB@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wnwn9r2l.fsf@gkayaalp.com> (message from Göktuğ Kayaalp on Fri, 08 Jan 2021 22:17:06 +0300)
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> No. If you have to use Zoom for your classes or meetings, you have to.
> If you need to use WhatsApp, you have to.
Not necessarily. I know people who have pressured/convinced
institutions such as schools to let them use free software instead.
It is not easy, and only a fraction succeed -- but that is better than
zero chance.
Pkease do not exaggerate hopelessness.
You are aware of many forms of mistreatment of disprivileged groups.
Usually there are campaigns to end those patterns of mistreatment.
Society is starting to become aware of them.
Nonfree software is an injustice too. Escaping it is not easy -- but
our work is to make it easier and encourage people to escape.
Hardly anyone recognizes this injustice, so one of our priorities is
making people notice. Every time I mention that I refuse to use Zoom
or WhatsApp, it is a chance to make people aware of the issue,
and that is progress.
> If you make it hard to use non-free software one _has_ to use with free
> software they _want_ to use, this is effectively a discriminatory,
> exclusionary, and unegalitarian practice.
We never _make_ our programs not run on nonfree systems.
You're attacking a straw man.
Perhaps you've misunderstood what our practices are.
We make our programs work with free software because that's what we
want. If you want to change them to interoperate with some nonfree
program or system, you are free to do that. We might even help
maintain your changes, if they are easy to merge in.
But we always give priority to using software in the Free World,
on GNU.
The last part of your message seems to be a lot of vituperation.
If you have such a low opinion of our efforts, nobody insists you
have to participate.
--
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)
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2021-01-07 8:49 ` [ELPA] New package: repology.el Jean Louis
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2021-01-07 18:18 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2021-01-07 19:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-07 21:07 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2021-01-07 21:17 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-08 17:22 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2021-01-08 19:43 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-09 6:41 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-09 8:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-08 19:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-10 5:59 ` Sv: " arthur miller
2021-01-11 4:43 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-11 13:35 ` Arthur Miller
2021-01-12 6:10 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-12 15:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-12 15:28 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-12 6:11 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-12 14:08 ` Arthur Miller
2021-01-13 5:43 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-15 14:46 ` Arthur Miller
2021-01-09 6:34 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-09 19:04 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-11 4:43 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-09 6:37 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-09 8:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
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[not found] ` <E1kxGuO-00079C-NR@fencepost.gnu.org>
[not found] ` <b94804db-7140-d450-6fc2-5afa440a8736@yandex.ru>
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2021-01-07 18:46 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-07 21:07 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2021-01-08 7:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-08 10:14 ` Privileges and practicalities [was: Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el] Göktuğ Kayaalp
2021-01-08 11:46 ` Jean Louis
2021-01-08 12:51 ` Aldric Giacomoni
2021-01-08 16:23 ` Ulrich Mueller
2021-01-08 18:47 ` Jean Louis
2021-01-09 6:42 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-11 14:11 ` Arthur Miller
2021-01-12 6:09 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-12 14:29 ` Arthur Miller
2021-01-08 19:17 ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2021-01-09 6:41 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2021-01-11 14:24 ` Arthur Miller
2021-01-12 6:09 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-12 14:19 ` Arthur Miller
2021-10-04 13:46 ` Time to dial back the dialectic? [was: Re: Privileges and practicalities] dick
2021-10-04 14:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-06 20:53 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-09 7:25 ` Privileges and practicalities [was: Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el] Jean Louis
2021-01-10 17:18 ` Devin Prater
2021-01-11 15:57 ` Jean Louis
2021-01-09 6:40 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-09 6:40 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-11 13:47 ` Arthur Miller
2021-01-12 6:10 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-12 14:32 ` Arthur Miller
2021-01-13 5:42 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-08 13:53 ` [ELPA] New package: repology.el Jean Louis
2021-01-08 17:22 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2021-01-08 18:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-08 19:40 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-10 6:06 ` Sv: " arthur miller
2021-01-11 4:42 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-11 13:00 ` Arthur Miller
2021-01-12 6:11 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-12 14:10 ` Arthur Miller
2021-01-13 5:42 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-09 6:37 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-09 8:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-10 6:31 ` Sv: " arthur miller
2021-01-13 5:29 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-15 14:37 ` Arthur Miller
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2021-01-07 20:34 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-07 20:47 ` Jean Louis
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2021-01-08 7:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-08 11:48 ` Jean Louis
2021-01-08 12:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-08 13:56 ` Jean Louis
2021-01-08 14:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-08 18:27 ` Jean Louis
2021-01-08 19:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-09 6:41 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-09 8:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-10 6:07 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-10 6:04 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-10 6:04 ` Richard Stallman
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2021-01-07 19:38 ` Jean Louis
2021-01-07 20:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-07 20:31 ` Jean Louis
2021-01-07 20:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-07 21:00 ` Jean Louis
2021-01-08 6:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-08 10:24 ` Arthur Miller
2021-01-08 11:28 ` Jean Louis
2021-01-09 6:35 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-09 8:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-09 8:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-10 6:13 ` Sv: " arthur miller
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[not found] ` <uy2h5xbhd@gentoo.org>
2021-01-07 11:46 ` Jean Louis
2021-01-07 19:38 ` Ulrich Mueller
2021-01-07 20:23 ` Jean Louis
2021-01-08 11:54 ` Ulrich Mueller
2021-01-08 18:23 ` Jean Louis
2021-01-09 6:35 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-07 18:18 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
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2021-01-08 6:25 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-08 6:30 ` Jean Louis
2021-01-09 6:45 ` frepology.org Richard Stallman
2021-01-09 8:11 ` frepology.org Jean Louis
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