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: Emacs as word processor Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:35:45 -0500 Message-ID: References: <5288A59E.7030109@dancol.org> <87vbzqfgd6.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87mwl04w3k.fsf@zigzag.favinet> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1384972554 13677 80.91.229.3 (20 Nov 2013 18:35:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 18:35:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Allen S. Rout" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 20 19:36:00 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VjCd1-0004Hh-Gd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 19:35:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56385 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjCd0-0001IS-VT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:35:55 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50808) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjCcu-0001Fi-2I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:35:49 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjCcs-0002B9-Ry for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:35:47 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:45401) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjCcs-0002B5-OV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:35:46 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjCcr-00081T-My; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:35:45 -0500 In-reply-to: (asr@ufl.edu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:165449 Archived-At: [ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider [ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, [ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. In fact, I think we'd push it into the Uncanny Valley; increasing frustration because, having made the surface look somewhat like they expect, we have left the bones in the "alien" configuration they don't understand. In basic Emacs, at least they know they're not in Kansas. I think our interface will be so different from actual Word that no one will get confused. -- 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 Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.