From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Windows emacs-25.1 i686 vs x86_64? Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2016 08:53:24 -0500 Message-ID: References: <6e2cffe5-942b-48d4-9ed5-ef39803bcd30@googlegroups.com> <87mvhgsf21.fsf@russet.org.uk> <8360o4monq.fsf@gnu.org> <87vaw4gq0j.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83oa1vlnkk.fsf@gnu.org> <87d1iba6od.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83ins2jq88.fsf@gnu.org> <87eg2p8swx.fsf@russet.org.uk> <831sypjmst.fsf@gnu.org> <83wpggip8j.fsf@gnu.org> <87pom8bn7q.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83r36oimof.fsf@gnu.org> <87lgwwbkzo.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87mvhbz5fy.fsf@russet.org.uk> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1478613345 10032 195.159.176.226 (8 Nov 2016 13:55:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 13:55:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 08 14:55:41 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c46rp-0000Kt-H9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Nov 2016 14:55:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33165 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c46rs-0006Io-HF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Nov 2016 08:55:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46475) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c46qz-0006G3-EH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Nov 2016 08:54:25 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c46qy-0003Wm-Jf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Nov 2016 08:54:21 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:56282) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c46q5-0002eK-IK; Tue, 08 Nov 2016 08:53:25 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1c46q4-0002Nk-Td; Tue, 08 Nov 2016 08:53:24 -0500 In-reply-to: <87mvhbz5fy.fsf@russet.org.uk> (phillip.lord@russet.org.uk) 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: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:209282 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. ]]] > > Our ethical objection to Windows applies equally to all versions. > > We consider technical issues secondary. > If this is true, then in this case, we should be making the decision on > the basis of the technical issue, as the primary issue (that of ethics) > makes no difference here. You took one sentence out of context and interpreted it in a way that is the opposite of my point. -- 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.