From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Knoppix is not entirely free software Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 15:10:13 -0500 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <17659.1068784236@mixed> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1068841315 23571 80.91.224.253 (14 Nov 2003 20:21:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 20:21:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 14 21:21:52 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AKkS0-0004OL-00 for ; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 21:21:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AKlN7-0004zV-AG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 16:20:53 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AKlLs-0004b1-T8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 16:19:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AKlLM-0004LW-NH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 16:19:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AKlLL-0004Kk-Me for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 16:19:03 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1AKkGj-0003w8-6k; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 15:10:13 -0500 Original-To: Peter S Galbraith In-reply-to: <17659.1068784236@mixed> (message from Peter S Galbraith on Thu, 13 Nov 2003 23:30:36 -0500) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:14216 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:14216 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."