From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es>
Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, turnbull@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Git mirrors
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:13:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1RETX9-00011K-VD@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878voqfiaw.fsf@wanadoo.es> (message from Óscar Fuentes on Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:31:03 +0200)
Everything we do here is for political reasons, and it always was.
I always thought that Free Software is about the user, always the
user.
The free software movement campaigns for users' freedom.
So you could say it is "about the users' freedom".
It would be an error to simplify that into "about the user", because
that could be miscontrued as including other benefits even at the
expense of freedom. For instance, some users like using Skype;
someone might say the GNU system would be "better for users" if it
included Skype and made them happy. If we adopted the motto that
"free software is about the user", we would be at a loss for how to
argue against that proposal.
So it is not our goal to give users what they happen to want.
Our goal is to give them freedom.
Users who don't want freedom can, of course, disregard it. Many do.
But if they say, "I don't want freedom, I want Skype", we disregard
them.
Git isn't proprietary, as Skype is. We're not against git. But we
are trying to promote Bzr because it is part of GNU.
The most basic way to promote another free program is to use it and
recommend it. So that's what we do. Using a free program helps it
get better, and Bzr has got better.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
51 Franklin St
Boston MA 02110
USA
www.fsf.org www.gnu.org
Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software.
Use free telephony http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/
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Thread overview: 226+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-06 20:50 Git mirrors Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-10-06 20:58 ` Glenn Morris
2011-10-06 21:16 ` chad
2011-10-06 21:58 ` John Wiegley
2011-10-06 22:05 ` David Reitter
2011-10-07 0:06 ` Glenn Morris
2011-10-07 9:26 ` Julien Danjou
2011-10-09 6:19 ` Tim Cross
2011-10-07 18:43 ` Burton Samograd
2011-10-07 19:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-07 19:31 ` Burton Samograd
2011-10-06 22:30 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-06 22:39 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-10-06 23:11 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-06 23:50 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-07 0:05 ` Glenn Morris
2011-10-07 0:13 ` Glenn Morris
2011-10-07 0:45 ` John Wiegley
2011-10-07 1:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-07 15:35 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-10-07 16:37 ` Glenn Morris
2011-10-07 18:23 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-10-08 8:50 ` Richard Stallman
2011-10-10 22:02 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-10-10 22:52 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-11 0:35 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-11 1:12 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-11 1:38 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-11 1:39 ` Miles Bader
2011-10-11 1:42 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-11 2:12 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-11 2:23 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-11 3:07 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-11 3:25 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-11 3:45 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-11 4:22 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-11 7:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-11 8:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-11 13:19 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-10-11 14:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-11 9:33 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-11 11:33 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-12 4:31 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-12 9:18 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-12 13:31 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-12 14:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-12 15:12 ` Richard Riley
2011-10-12 15:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-12 15:23 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-12 15:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-12 16:02 ` Jambunathan K
2011-10-12 15:32 ` Vijay Lakshminarayanan
2011-10-12 16:09 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-12 17:19 ` Vijay Lakshminarayanan
2011-10-12 18:21 ` Helmut Eller
2011-10-12 18:30 ` Jambunathan K
2011-10-12 19:25 ` Helmut Eller
2011-10-13 12:35 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-10-12 19:54 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2011-10-12 20:12 ` Burton Samograd
2011-10-13 3:21 ` Vijay Lakshminarayanan
2011-10-13 4:06 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-13 14:08 ` Burton Samograd
2011-10-13 16:38 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-13 14:00 ` Richard Stallman
2011-10-13 22:13 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2011-10-13 23:26 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-14 1:01 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-14 2:39 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-14 3:13 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-14 5:22 ` Jambunathan K
2011-10-14 12:32 ` Jambunathan K
2011-10-14 4:12 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-14 9:09 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-14 9:28 ` Miles Bader
2011-10-14 11:35 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-14 17:19 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-10-17 7:19 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-17 8:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-17 8:31 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-10-17 9:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-17 12:09 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-17 12:36 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-17 14:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-17 14:44 ` John Yates
2011-10-17 11:57 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-17 13:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-17 15:45 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-17 14:10 ` Looming colocation [Was: Git mirrors] Alan Mackenzie
2011-10-17 16:59 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-17 19:04 ` Barry Warsaw
2011-10-17 18:49 ` Looms and Pipelines (was Re: Git mirrors) Barry Warsaw
2011-10-14 4:50 ` Git mirrors Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-14 9:27 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-14 12:29 ` Bastien
2011-10-14 13:08 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-14 14:00 ` Bastien
2011-10-14 17:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-29 15:29 ` Bastien
2011-10-17 9:44 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-17 16:41 ` Vijay Lakshminarayanan
2011-10-17 18:39 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-17 18:52 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-17 19:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-18 10:56 ` Richard Stallman
2011-10-18 3:39 ` Vijay Lakshminarayanan
2011-10-18 2:46 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-18 5:13 ` Jambunathan K
2011-10-18 10:56 ` Richard Stallman
2011-10-14 21:41 ` Richard Stallman
2011-10-17 11:25 ` Michael Raitza
2011-10-13 4:55 ` Miles Bader
2011-10-13 8:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-11 11:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-12 4:55 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-12 8:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-12 10:51 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-12 10:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-12 14:01 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-12 14:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-12 21:54 ` Richard Stallman
2011-10-11 12:56 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-11 15:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-11 19:34 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-11 22:03 ` Richard Stallman
2011-10-13 5:10 ` Miles Bader
2011-10-11 12:34 ` Richard Stallman
2011-10-11 16:39 ` What about Python? (was: Git mirrors) Barry Fishman
2011-10-11 22:03 ` Richard Stallman
2011-10-11 4:08 ` Git mirrors Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-11 13:39 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-10-11 13:48 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-10-11 15:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-11 20:13 ` John Wiegley
2011-10-11 21:39 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-12 0:32 ` John Wiegley
2011-10-12 1:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-12 2:51 ` John Wiegley
2011-10-12 9:23 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-10-12 14:12 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-10-12 18:56 ` John Wiegley
2011-10-12 19:24 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-10-12 1:16 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-12 1:34 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-12 21:54 ` Richard Stallman
2011-10-12 22:18 ` John Wiegley
2011-10-12 22:48 ` Karl Fogel
2011-10-13 5:09 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-13 8:23 ` Bastien
2011-10-13 22:13 ` Richard Stallman
2011-10-14 11:55 ` Bastien
2011-10-13 13:41 ` Vijay Lakshminarayanan
2011-10-13 16:16 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-14 1:03 ` Vijay Lakshminarayanan
2011-10-14 13:40 ` Richard Stallman
2011-10-13 22:13 ` Richard Stallman
2011-10-14 3:14 ` Barry Warsaw
2011-10-14 5:40 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-13 12:46 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-10-13 0:08 ` John Wiegley
2011-10-13 15:39 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-10-13 16:39 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-10-13 17:37 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-10-13 16:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-13 17:35 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-10-12 14:46 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-10-12 18:57 ` John Wiegley
2011-10-12 20:44 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-10-11 22:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-11 23:33 ` James Cloos
2011-10-11 23:37 ` John Wiegley
2011-10-12 8:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-12 18:58 ` John Wiegley
2011-10-12 20:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-12 20:32 ` John Wiegley
2011-10-12 20:56 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-12 21:03 ` John Wiegley
2011-10-12 21:15 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-12 20:50 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-10-12 20:56 ` John Wiegley
2011-10-12 21:05 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-10-12 21:09 ` John Wiegley
2011-10-12 21:14 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-10-12 21:37 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-12 22:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-12 22:35 ` John Wiegley
2011-10-12 23:06 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-12 23:16 ` John Wiegley
2011-10-12 23:37 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-12 23:57 ` John Wiegley
2011-10-13 0:10 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-13 0:14 ` John Wiegley
2011-10-13 0:24 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-13 9:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-13 8:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-12 22:05 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-11 18:58 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-10-11 9:00 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-11 22:02 ` Richard Stallman
2011-10-12 1:44 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-10-08 9:26 ` Richard Riley
2011-10-08 9:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-07 4:58 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-10-07 7:45 ` John Wiegley
2011-10-07 8:15 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-10-07 8:25 ` John Wiegley
2011-10-07 13:33 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-10-07 16:47 ` James Cloos
2011-10-07 20:40 ` John Wiegley
2011-10-07 17:36 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-07 8:26 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-10-07 9:06 ` John Wiegley
2011-10-07 10:36 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-10-07 13:19 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-10-07 7:04 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-07 7:36 ` John Wiegley
2011-10-07 8:00 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-10-07 8:13 ` John Wiegley
2011-10-07 9:02 ` John Wiegley
2011-10-07 10:14 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2011-10-07 17:39 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-07 0:49 ` Leo
2011-10-12 10:05 ` Bastien
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-05-22 5:22 François Pinard
2012-05-22 6:58 ` Nick Dokos
2012-05-22 23:08 ` Bastien
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