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: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 01:10:34 -0500 Message-ID: References: <6193374b-a60d-ba82-91b5-afdede18e3bb@yandex.ru> <72871d3a-3b6a-d6fd-01cc-4248f817923c@yandex.ru> <801f93f3-8c1f-5f5f-6351-e1169bc309ae@yandex.ru> <83k0sp27f6.fsf@gnu.org> <83wnwolu2i.fsf@gnu.org> <835z48lf21.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="15320"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-tangents@gnu.org, bugs@gnu.support, ulm@gentoo.org, ams@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru, eliz@gnu.org To: Arthur Miller Original-X-From: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 12 07:11:17 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 1kzCth-0003qs-E0 for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 12 Jan 2021 07:11:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37636 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kzCtg-0008QI-Gn for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 12 Jan 2021 01:11:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45752) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kzCtU-0008P3-5X for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Jan 2021 01:11:04 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54356) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kzCtT-00051b-9f; Tue, 12 Jan 2021 01:11:03 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kzCt0-0006UQ-VZ; Tue, 12 Jan 2021 01:10:35 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Arthur Miller on Mon, 11 Jan 2021 14:35:34 +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:577 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 think the problem at hand here is how we, or some people, define > actively promoting something. Is a mere reference to existence a > promotion of something? In some cases it is. Spreading the word about an obscure program is promoting it, since that information would lead some people to use them. Especially if you talk about the program as if people are going to use it. -- 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)