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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Cc: SuarezMiguelC@protonmail.com
Subject: Re: Google Drive nonfree
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2020 20:07:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a37ce7da-fe6f-e0f9-34aa-435e822a3fe4@gmx.de> (raw)


SuarezMiguelC via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

> Hello Emacs email list!, I'm an user of Emacs which I love using.

Hi,

> I'm here for some clarification, Navigating the Emacs official page, I
> could see on releases that you present the feature on Emacs 26.1 that
> you can use TRAMP to connect to Google Drive.
>
> I see problems with this, first, why do we need to connect into a
> propietary software within emacs? isn't this making Emacs non-free?
> Two, well, mentioning non-free software on your documentation on
> EmacsWiki and also on the main page as I said.

Read
<https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/network-services-arent-free-or-nonfree.en.html>.
Network services aren't free or non-free, what matters is the
client. Emacs + Tramp do not use any non-free software.

Tramp does not *recommend* Google Drive. It just offers access to it,
like to many other network ressources.

> Maybe I have some ideas wrong with this, if I stated something wrong,
> please correct me.
>
> Thanks!
> Miguel Suarez

Best regards, Michael.



             reply	other threads:[~2020-02-23 19:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-23 19:07 Michael Albinus [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-02-23 19:10 Google Drive nonfree Michael Albinus
2020-02-23 22:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-02-23  1:00 SuarezMiguelC via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-02-23  9:03 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-02-23 16:23 ` Stefan Monnier

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