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: Privileges and practicalities [was: Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el] Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 01:09:58 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87zh1jag72.fsf@gkayaalp.com> 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="11376"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-tangents@gnu.org, bugs@gnu.support, ulm@gentoo.org, ams@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru, self@gkayaalp.com, eliz@gnu.org To: Arthur Miller Original-X-From: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 12 07:10:24 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 1kzCsp-0002pp-VC for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 12 Jan 2021 07:10:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36600 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kzCsp-0007qO-0W for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 12 Jan 2021 01:10:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45466) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kzCsY-0007pK-Qm for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Jan 2021 01:10:06 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54341) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kzCsW-0004ZT-BY; Tue, 12 Jan 2021 01:10:04 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kzCsQ-0006QG-MD; Tue, 12 Jan 2021 01:09:59 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Arthur Miller on Mon, 11 Jan 2021 15:11:54 +0100) 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:575 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. ]]] > It is a miscommunication, albeit on GNU project side. Not all humans have > possibility to use non-free software in all aspects of their life :-). Why argue the question? > I think GNU project should tell people to use exclusively free software > *whenever they can*, It's possible you've been misinformed about what the GNU Project says to the public about using software. Have you looked at what we actually say? You can find it in https://gnu.org/philosophy/. To start with, look at fsf.org/tedx, https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html, and https://gnu.org/philosophy/saying-no-even-once.html. > This is a bit paradoxical again. For the first, there is a slight > problem with saying that people's work is unethical, but not people > themselves. I understand what you mean, but I am afraid that a wider > audience is not that understanding. I think it is important to be able to condemn an act without condemning the person who does it. Nuances like that are important. To simplify them away would result in being too harsh on the people. -- 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)