From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Teodor Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: instead of gnus-cloud.el
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 01:10:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1bMpyB-0000v9-CR@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87k2gs8bak.fsf@lifelogs.com
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The term "cloud computing" clouds users minds; it discourages them
from asking crucial questions, such as "Whose computer is that, in
which country, and what exactly are they asking me to entrust to it?"
It fuzzes all the different uses of the network together. So we urge
people to reject the term "cloud." See
http://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html.
Thus, I was perturbed to see that a file in Gnus grants legitimacy
to the term "cloud" by using it. The name ought to be changed.
I was going to suggest another name based on what the file does.
But I can't figure out what it does. The only explanation is one
line at the top of the file, and it doesn't say much. That is
bad maintenance.
Would someone like to add comments sufficient to understand
what the code does? And please show them to me.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-12 5:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-11 15:05 bug#23945: 25.1.50; Request for review: Gnus Cloud work in scratch/gnus-cloud Teodor Zlatanov
2016-07-12 5:10 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2016-07-12 7:44 ` instead of gnus-cloud.el Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-07-13 13:04 ` Richard Stallman
2016-07-13 13:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-07-12 13:44 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-07-12 15:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-07-13 14:32 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-07-13 13:06 ` Richard Stallman
2016-07-13 14:20 ` bug#23945: 25.1.50; Request for review: Gnus Cloud work in scratch/gnus-cloud Ted Zlatanov
2016-07-18 14:08 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-07-18 23:18 ` npostavs
2016-07-19 14:50 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-07-19 20:15 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-07-20 1:36 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-07-20 12:55 ` Ted Zlatanov
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