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: New maintainer Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2015 13:12:10 -0400 Message-ID: References: <560CCEBA.9080607@online.de> <874miapdhs.fsf@openmailbox.org> <8737xuuw2y.fsf@rabkins.net> <87lhbmkrle.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87si5r22qh.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <8737xrweel.fsf@googlemail.com> <87r3lazla7.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87bnce1ko7.fsf@googlemail.com> <87mvvyz5a8.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87si5qi7zi.fsf@googlemail.com> <87io6mz0en.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83612l26ss.fsf@gnu.org> <87egh9zvqq.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83zizxztpq.fsf@gnu.org> <87612lzs01.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83vbalzpt8.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1444065158 7990 80.91.229.3 (5 Oct 2015 17:12:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 17:12:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dak@gnu.org, jens.k.loewe@googlemail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 05 19:12:30 2015 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 1Zj9JO-0001dI-2H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2015 19:12:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46733 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zj9JN-0005uk-Cp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2015 13:12:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32881) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zj9JE-0005nY-2E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2015 13:12:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zj9JD-0002Dh-4t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2015 13:12:19 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:50171) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zj9J7-00027Z-V5; Mon, 05 Oct 2015 13:12:13 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Zj9J4-0002v6-Sw; Mon, 05 Oct 2015 13:12:11 -0400 In-reply-to: <83vbalzpt8.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Mon, 05 Oct 2015 11:23:47 +0300) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.10 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:190948 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. ]]] > I do, but the GPL in my reading is not about privacy and choices. > There could be a GPL'ed program that doesn't care about privacy and > gives the users little control on its operation. Free software does not guarantee the absence of malfeatures, but free software puts the users in control of the program which enables the user community to fix any malfeatures. This in turn reduces the temptation to introduce malfeatures. See http://gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html and fsf.org/tedx. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.