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: Time to dial back the dialectic? [was: Re: Privileges and practicalities] Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2021 16:53:04 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87wnwn9r2l.fsf@gkayaalp.com> <87lf383nsm.fsf_-_@dick> 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="23441"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-tangents@gnu.org To: dick Original-X-From: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 06 22:55:21 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 1mYDwe-0005tl-Do for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 06 Oct 2021 22:55:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35624 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mYDwd-0004dG-9c for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 06 Oct 2021 16:55:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38510) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mYDuT-0002LP-I8 for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Oct 2021 16:53:05 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:42056) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mYDuT-0001Pm-AQ; Wed, 06 Oct 2021 16:53:05 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mYDuS-00057D-6z; Wed, 06 Oct 2021 16:53:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87lf383nsm.fsf_-_@dick> (message from dick on Mon, 04 Oct 2021 09:46:49 -0400) 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:739 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'd wager the hundred or so guys who identify most with GNU I often get mail from people who do support the free software movement. Those are the people who really "get it." The people you're talking about do exist, but they evidently don't support the free software movement. We are not trying to cater to them. On the contrary, on the philosophical level we compete with them. > I presume NonGNU Elpa was your idea, and it was the right one. I have a feeling that you've probably misunderstood the purpose of NonGNU ELPA, but since you have not given specifics, I can't really tell. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)