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 01:11:04 -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="18921"; 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 07:12:16 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 1kzCue-0004mt-2M for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 12 Jan 2021 07:12:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38172 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kzCud-0000Du-2t for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 12 Jan 2021 01:12:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45816) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kzCta-000076-0a for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Jan 2021 01:11:10 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54359) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kzCtZ-00055L-DW; Tue, 12 Jan 2021 01:11:09 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kzCtU-0006X1-N3; Tue, 12 Jan 2021 01:11:04 -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:578 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. ]]] > In some previous mail you answered you had no problems with medical > hardware running non-free blobs. In order to be consistent in > philosophical sense, you should have problem with it. But... I don't reject appliances in general for possibly having nonfree software in them. If the appliance doesn't talk to a network, what's inside it is not a crucial issue, as long as it is not meant for anyone to change 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)