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: lldb support Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 17:30:20 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20161107150552.20e98985@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <20161107220815.606cd583@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <6c239d49-a92c-1495-7121-4808295a4fc2@dancol.org> <735f8965-609a-d0c2-82bc-19a2393186b6@dancol.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1478989865 26056 195.159.176.226 (12 Nov 2016 22:31:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 22:31:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Wiegley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 12 23:31:01 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 1c5goh-0002f2-QC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2016 23:30:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59845 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c5goj-0004Jh-Fw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2016 17:30:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42406) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c5goZ-0004Hz-UI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2016 17:30:24 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c5goY-0002Yw-TC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2016 17:30:23 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:40901) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c5goW-0002Wy-MU; Sat, 12 Nov 2016 17:30:20 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1c5goW-0004Tu-8u; Sat, 12 Nov 2016 17:30:20 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from John Wiegley on Fri, 11 Nov 2016 09:47:18 -0800) 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:209363 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 strongly agree. Inhibiting users' freedom to choose other *free* software, > because that other free software is not part of the GNU project, makes it > sound like the ubiquity of the GNU project, and not user freedom, is the goal. I am not sure what course of action is best here, but this sort of argument are not cogent because it is a fundamental misunderstanding. This decision has no effect on any user's freedom. The developers of a free program never have a moral obligation to support any particular platform or interoperation, because users who don't like their decision are free to change the code. When the developers of a free program decide which features to include, including which platforms or interoperation to support, the question at stake is not what uses to _allow_, but rather which uses to _facilitate_. -- 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.