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: Sun, 10 Jan 2021 01:07:23 -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> <838s92ij7m.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="9738"; 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 Sun Jan 10 07:07:49 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 1kyTtE-0002Ps-GW for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 10 Jan 2021 07:07:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33344 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kyTtD-0002yl-IR for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 10 Jan 2021 01:07:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56756) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kyTsw-0002xn-Qu for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jan 2021 01:07:30 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:43993) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kyTsw-0005GF-2j; Sun, 10 Jan 2021 01:07:30 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kyTsp-0003VS-64; Sun, 10 Jan 2021 01:07:23 -0500 In-Reply-To: <838s92ij7m.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 09 Jan 2021 10:54:21 +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:559 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'm quite sure this is a misguided effort. For example, there's no > reason not to tell them it exists, if you at the same time tell them > it's non-free and urge them to use a free replacement instead. It depends who we're talling. If we are informing someone who is a committed free software activist, someone who will surely reject it given this information, then telling per is harmless. Otherwise, the question is no so simple. That leaves a lot to say about the other issues raised. I can't do it today. -- 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)