From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ulrich Mueller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.tangents Subject: Re: Privileges and practicalities [was: Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el] Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2021 17:23:46 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87zh1jag72.fsf@gkayaalp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="15639"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-tangents@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, ulm@gentoo.org, ams@gnu.org, arthur.miller@live.com, dgutov@yandex.ru, =?utf-8?B?R8O2a3R1xJ8=?= Kayaalp , Eli Zaretskii To: Jean Louis Original-X-From: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 08 17:24:41 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 1kxuZ7-0003ve-5m for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 08 Jan 2021 17:24:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57624 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxuZ6-0003wS-4l for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 08 Jan 2021 11:24:40 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35014) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxuYV-0003t9-Nn for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jan 2021 11:24:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.gentoo.org ([2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]:36381 helo=smtp.gentoo.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxuYR-0003oh-MP; Fri, 08 Jan 2021 11:24:01 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Jean Louis's message of "Fri, 08 Jan 2021 11:46:02 +0000") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4; envelope-from=ulm@gentoo.org; helo=smtp.gentoo.org X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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:522 Archived-At: >>>>> On Fri, 08 Jan 2021, Jean Louis wrote: > What GNU project promotes is free software. GNU never says to its > users to use exclusively free software and never condemns people for > using proprietary software. Yet it maintains a blacklist of common GNU/Linux distros and labels them as "unethical", even if these distros (like Debian and Fedora) have a clear policy to exclude anything non-free from their main repositories. I am certain that these distro maintainers act in good faith if they mention (for example) CPU microcode for Spectre mitigation in their documentation, even if that microcode isn't free software.