From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: remember(-diary).el
Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2007 10:56:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85oddalovh.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ud4tq237r.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 01 Dec 2007 11:07:04 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
>> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:22:43 +0000
>>
>> Maybe many third world people still use win 9x; but I just did a
>> survey and +90% don't intend to use any GNU software and and among
>> the rest, 7% do not want to upgrade their software.
>
> But we _do_ want to convince them to use GNU software, don't we?
And the point of free software is that you are _free_ to use it, not
that you _have_ to use it. At any given point of time, for the "normal
citizen" restrictive government regulations are not relevant. But that
is a consolation only as long as you are not affected.
And GNU/Linux with its much more modest system requirements offers a
migration path (a path you can start with Emacs) to uptodate software
for older hardware, the kind of hardware people in the third world use.
Incidentally, if 10% intend to use GNU software, I would guess that is
at least double the percentage of people in the first and second world.
Even if the amount would have been more like 0.5%, for the sake of those
it would have been worth it. 10% already is a mass phenomenon, if you
ask me...
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-21 7:24 remember(-diary).el martin rudalics
2007-11-21 7:32 ` remember(-diary).el Miles Bader
2007-11-21 8:39 ` remember(-diary).el Glenn Morris
2007-11-21 18:49 ` remember(-diary).el Eli Zaretskii
2007-11-21 23:57 ` remember(-diary).el John Wiegley
2007-11-21 8:44 ` remember(-diary).el martin rudalics
2007-11-21 13:55 ` remember(-diary).el Miles Bader
2007-11-21 17:06 ` remember(-diary).el martin rudalics
2007-11-21 18:50 ` remember(-diary).el Eli Zaretskii
2007-11-22 2:13 ` remember(-diary).el Miles Bader
2007-11-22 4:18 ` remember(-diary).el Eli Zaretskii
2007-11-22 8:57 ` remember(-diary).el martin rudalics
2007-11-22 9:44 ` remember(-diary).el joakim
2007-11-23 4:35 ` remember(-diary).el Richard Stallman
2007-11-23 20:56 ` remember(-diary).el Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-11-23 21:46 ` remember(-diary).el David Kastrup
2007-11-22 10:41 ` remember(-diary).el Leo
2007-11-22 23:57 ` remember(-diary).el Juri Linkov
2007-11-23 0:10 ` remember(-diary).el Leo
2007-11-30 6:17 ` remember(-diary).el Michael Olson
2007-11-30 8:27 ` remember(-diary).el Leo
2007-11-30 12:40 ` remember(-diary).el Michael Olson
2007-11-22 2:27 ` remember(-diary).el Richard Stallman
2007-11-30 6:22 ` remember(-diary).el Michael Olson
2007-11-30 16:48 ` remember(-diary).el Richard Stallman
2007-11-30 18:42 ` remember(-diary).el Michael Olson
2007-11-30 19:06 ` remember(-diary).el Glenn Morris
2007-11-30 22:11 ` remember(-diary).el Michael Olson
2007-11-30 22:22 ` remember(-diary).el Leo
2007-12-01 9:07 ` remember(-diary).el Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-01 9:56 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-12-01 9:06 ` remember(-diary).el Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-02 21:33 ` remember(-diary).el Michael Olson
2007-12-03 4:18 ` remember(-diary).el Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-03 15:13 ` remember(-diary).el Michael Olson
2007-12-03 15:44 ` remember(-diary).el Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-12-03 1:05 ` remember(-diary).el Michael Olson
2007-12-03 4:22 ` remember(-diary).el Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-03 14:40 ` remember(-diary).el Stefan Monnier
2007-12-03 20:51 ` remember(-diary).el Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-01 17:59 ` remember(-diary).el Richard Stallman
2007-11-30 20:57 ` remember(-diary).el Eli Zaretskii
2007-11-30 22:07 ` remember(-diary).el Michael Olson
2007-12-05 1:22 ` remember(-diary).el Michael Olson
2007-12-05 4:46 ` remember(-diary).el Eli Zaretskii
2007-11-21 18:24 ` remember(-diary).el Sven Joachim
2007-11-21 18:54 ` remember(-diary).el Eli Zaretskii
2007-11-22 13:32 ` remember(-diary).el martin rudalics
2007-11-22 23:57 ` remember(-diary).el Juri Linkov
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