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: Casting as wide a net as possible (was: First draft of the Emacs website) Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 02:08:57 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1449817764 20652 80.91.229.3 (11 Dec 2015 07:09:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 07:09:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Yates Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 11 08:09:16 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 1a7HpK-00023u-Ve for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2015 08:09:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46189 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a7HpK-0003zV-5X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2015 02:09:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45512) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a7HpG-0003y6-Ow for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2015 02:09:11 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a7HpF-0000px-9M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2015 02:09:10 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:36218) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a7Hp3-0000Tm-N7; Fri, 11 Dec 2015 02:08:57 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1a7Hp3-0008Hx-7t; Fri, 11 Dec 2015 02:08:57 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from John Yates on Thu, 10 Dec 2015 11:46:42 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] 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:196085 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. ]]] > My thought was that what Emacs needs before all else is more > users. Period. We would like more people to use Emacs, but we should never think that we _need_ more users. When developers of a free software package think they _need_ more users, it is a lever that can be used to push them into bad decisions. When some people use Emacs, they are getting benefit from our work. We are glad it benefits them, we intended it to benefit users, and we hope to make it benefit them more, but we don't _need_ them to be pleased with our work. We're the ones who did them a favor -- not vice versa. Likewise, when some people don't use Emacs, that's their loss, not our loss. -- 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.