From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: OT: threats to Free Software (was: AW: Fwd: CEDET sync) Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:37:54 -0500 Message-ID: References: <86bpf7q3fc.wl%lluis@ginnungagap.pc.ac.upc.edu> <87wrxvyijr.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4B8C42E2.3080308@siege-engine.com> <7697A57B1AD9104F993CDF6A5B69430C09227D1F24@CORPMAIL08.corp.capgemini.com> <878wabxg0x.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87mxyrhxq8.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87635eycga.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87hboyhfnt.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87zl2qwsgk.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1267612762 20069 80.91.229.12 (3 Mar 2010 10:39:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 10:39:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen@xemacs.org, dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 03 11:39:17 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nmlz3-0003Vp-6D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:39:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39441 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nmlz2-0000ja-H0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:39:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nmlxl-0000Cu-P3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:37:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33950 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nmlxl-0000Cc-82 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:37:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nmlxk-0001Gq-87 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:37:57 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:56788) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nmlxk-0001Gk-1t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:37:56 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nmlxi-00041f-Sa; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:37:55 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:40:48 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:121599 Archived-At: I think the real threat the FSF's ideals is that computers are being split into two camps: - cell-phones - web-services there are still some things in the middle (laptops/desktops) where users can run Free Software, but the tendency is pretty clear. Yes, this is a real problem. We are going to campaign against Software as a Service.