From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Knoppix is not entirely free software
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 22:49:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9628-Fri14Nov2003224905+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1AKkGj-0003w8-6k@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Richard Stallman on Fri, 14 Nov 2003 15:10:13 -0500)
> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 15:10:13 -0500
>
> We sometimes design free software so it can work with widely-used
> non-free software packages such as Netscape, Windows and MacOS. Being
> able to work with them is not the same as recommending them. The
> mention of Netscape, Windows and MacOs in Emacs doesn't serve to
> spread the word of their existence very much, because users mostly
> already know of those packages.
>
> Eli wrote:
>
> The fact that Netscape is mentioned in browse-url.el doesn't mean
> Emacs recommends it, just that it uses it when it's the only tool to
> do a certain job.
>
> In the GNU Project, we won't recommend a non-free program even if it is
> the only way to do a job. We say, "There is nothing we can recommend."
I don't see any contradiction, because that's exactly what I said,
albeit in different words: using is one thing, recommending is
another.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-14 20:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-13 2:39 Knoppix is not entirely free software Richard Stallman
2003-11-13 3:44 ` Dan Anderson
[not found] ` <rms@gnu.org>
2003-11-14 4:30 ` Peter S Galbraith
2003-11-14 7:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <eliz@elta.co.il>
2003-11-14 19:00 ` Peter S Galbraith
2003-11-14 20:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-11-14 20:10 ` Richard Stallman
2003-11-14 20:49 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2003-11-14 20:21 ` Peter S Galbraith
2003-11-15 16:37 ` Richard Stallman
2003-11-15 18:31 ` Peter S Galbraith
2003-11-16 3:52 ` Dan Anderson
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