From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.comp.gcc.devel Subject: Re: clang and FSF's strategy Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 12:17:57 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20140121201949.21DE1380522@snark.thyrsus.com> <1390401184.29263.5.camel@Iris> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390497476 32130 80.91.229.3 (23 Jan 2014 17:17:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 17:17:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, jordigh@octave.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org To: Michael Witten Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 23 18:18:04 2014 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 1W6Nul-0003bo-Sc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 18:18:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42450 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6Nul-0005rd-94 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 12:18:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39313) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6Nuh-0005rR-Pj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 12:18:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6Nug-0002eU-MM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 12:17:59 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:50093) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6Nug-0002eQ-JO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 12:17:58 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6Nuf-0006o6-RJ; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 12:17:57 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Michael Witten on Thu, 23 Jan 2014 10:03:58 +0000) 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:168965 gmane.comp.gcc.devel:134130 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. ]]] > The fact that these non-free tools are not based on gcc are a > testament to how proprietary software developers cannot plug into gcc, > and how clang is fostering non-free software. What does it matter whether clang fosters non-free software if clang *also* fosters free software? Non-free software is an injustice. Our goal is to eliminate that injustice, to give computer users freedom. Developing free software part of what we do to achieve this goal. When any program fosters non-free software, that works directly against the overall goal. Copyleft is our method of making sure that our free software does not generate nonfree competitors which consist of our code plus something else that is off limits to us. -- 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.