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.tangents Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2021 01:41:21 -0500 Message-ID: References: <834kjslexq.fsf@gnu.org> <83pn2fkiv5.fsf@gnu.org> <26475995-EEB8-4B71-8B06-A7B7B4C8A737@gnu.support> <834kjrk3ox.fsf@gnu.org> <83y2h3ij23.fsf@gnu.org> <83pn2fi5i7.fsf@gnu.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="7984"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-tangents@gnu.org, bugs@gnu.support, ulm@gentoo.org, ams@gnu.org, arthur.miller@live.com, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 09 07:42:03 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: get-emacs-tangents@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 1ky7wp-0001yp-4w for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 09 Jan 2021 07:42:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45860 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ky7wo-0000gK-7F for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 09 Jan 2021 01:42:02 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58134) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ky7wH-0000da-C9 for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jan 2021 01:41:30 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54955) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ky7wG-000555-Vk; Sat, 09 Jan 2021 01:41:28 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ky7w9-0006Ge-F1; Sat, 09 Jan 2021 01:41:21 -0500 In-Reply-To: <83pn2fi5i7.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 08 Jan 2021 21:38:08 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-tangents@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs news and miscellaneous discussions outside the scope of other Emacs mailing lists List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-tangents" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.tangents:542 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. ]]] > I want help them because I don't see how these references cause any > damage to the Free Software cause. Promoting non-free software and > inviting users to use it is indeed against our cause, but just telling > where it's stored isn't. Telling people that the package _exists_ is what we want to avoid. > I don't think the GNU project is about concealing information. I hope > it isn't. The information is available to the public without our help, so we are not concealing it. But we have no obligation to go out of our way to spread the word. > Not mentioning a program does nothing towards eliminating it, Actually it does, sometimes. If we avoid mentioning a program we avoid recruiting more users for it. That can eventually contribute to its elimination. The point is, it avoids leading people to use that program. A nonfree program denies freedom to its users. If we lead a person to use the nonfree program, we lead per to surrender freedom to it. Therefore we try to avoid that. -- 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)