From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tomas Hlavaty Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs as a word processor (ways to convert Word/RTF proprietary files) Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2020 12:53:22 +0100 Message-ID: <87mty0ss0d.fsf@logand.com> References: <0E591E8B-FD55-4829-8421-6F2C02AFD20C@mit.edu> <83eejenvy2.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="15203"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Jean Louis , Emacs developers To: Yuri Khan , Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 26 13:00:47 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1kt8Fb-0003sE-9s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2020 13:00:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36252 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kt8Fa-0000Fl-6u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2020 07:00:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35278) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kt88Y-0006uj-4w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2020 06:53:30 -0500 Original-Received: from logand.com ([37.48.87.44]:53822) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kt88W-0006yx-EL; Sat, 26 Dec 2020 06:53:29 -0500 Original-Received: by logand.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 201FB19F6F6; Sat, 26 Dec 2020 12:53:24 +0100 (CET) X-Mailer: emacs 26.3 (via feedmail 11-beta-1 I) In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=37.48.87.44; envelope-from=tom@logand.com; helo=logand.com 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, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:261848 Archived-At: On Sat 26 Dec 2020 at 18:03, Yuri Khan wrote: >> Google Docs is also bad -- because you have to run nonfree software >> to talk to it, and you have to identify yourself and sign an unjust >> contract to be allowed to use it. > > Of course you have to identify yourself. It=E2=80=99s a natural consequen= ce of > collaboration, because: > > * You want to let a small set of your coworkers to be able to see the > document and comment on it. > * You want an even smaller subset of those to be able to edit it. > * You want to know who made which comment or edit. None of those points cause having to identify myself to an overseas entity.