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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Windows emacs-25.1 i686 vs x86_64?
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2016 09:40:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1c3l69-0007Aj-Gk@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lgwwbkzo.fsf@wanadoo.es> (message from Óscar Fuentes on Sun, 06 Nov 2016 18:01:47 +0100)

[[[ 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. ]]]

  > As long as Emacs officially supports Windows 9x, it is implicitly
  > endorsing it. Because the basis of the GNU project is political and
  > moral, it is important that we send the correct messages to our users.

Our ethical objection to Windows applies equally to all versions.
We consider technical issues secondary.

As for security, in principle you can't trust any version of Windows
because it is proprietary software.  The universal back door
was first detected in Windows 98, and is now in Windows 10.
There is no reason to prefer the latter to the former.
Whether versions before Windows 98 had the universal back door,
we don't know.

-- 
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.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-11-07 14:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-03 15:32 Windows emacs-25.1 i686 vs x86_64? David M. Miller
2016-11-03 15:39 ` tomas
2016-11-03 16:00 ` David M. Miller
2016-11-03 16:26   ` John Mastro
2016-11-03 16:28   ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-03 17:44     ` David M. Miller
2016-11-03 22:21       ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-03 17:58     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-03 22:25       ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-04  7:19         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-04 10:19           ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-05  8:16             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-05 22:26               ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-06  3:43                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-06  8:10                   ` Paul Eggert
2016-11-06 15:48                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-06 16:13                       ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-11-06 16:43                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-06 17:01                           ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-11-06 17:24                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-06 18:26                               ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-11-06 18:42                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-06 19:17                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-06 20:15                                   ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-11-07 14:40                             ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2016-11-07 15:16                               ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-08 13:53                                 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-06 16:51                       ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-06 18:50                       ` John Wiegley
2016-11-07 14:42                         ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-06 21:54                       ` Paul Eggert
2016-11-06 21:57                         ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-07 14:43                         ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-07 15:15                           ` Daniel Colascione
2016-11-07 15:26                           ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-08 13:53                             ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-08 14:52                               ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-08 15:31                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-09 16:50                                   ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-09 17:15                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-09 17:18                                     ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-10 15:19                                       ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-09  7:00                                 ` martin rudalics
2016-11-15 10:26                                 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-07 16:34                           ` Paul Eggert
2016-11-07 18:07                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-07 19:02                               ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-07 19:29                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-07 21:54                                   ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-07 19:39                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-07 20:02                                   ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-07 20:10                                     ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-07 20:22                                       ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-07 20:27                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-08  3:48                                           ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-11-08 15:32                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-07 18:49                           ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-08 13:55                             ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-08 14:34                               ` Perry E. Metzger
2016-11-06 21:50                   ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-06  4:13                 ` Noam Postavsky

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