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: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2017 14:23:57 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8737aac0rb.fsf@wanadoo.es> <7s37aapc4g.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1499452480 2948 195.159.176.226 (7 Jul 2017 18:34:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2017 18:34:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, rgm@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ken Manheimer Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 07 20:34:37 2017 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 1dTY5J-0000QN-TR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2017 20:34:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58247 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dTY5P-0004lp-D7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2017 14:34:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47329) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dTXvB-00054H-5q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2017 14:24:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dTXvA-0002b5-CM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2017 14:24:05 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:55965) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dTXv3-0002Uv-VG; Fri, 07 Jul 2017 14:23:58 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dTXv3-0003AT-45; Fri, 07 Jul 2017 14:23:57 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Ken Manheimer on Thu, 6 Jul 2017 12:52:36 -0400) 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:216283 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. ]]] > which might warrant > improving the copyright assignment mechanisms. I don't think the mechanism, as such, is much of an inconvenience any more. Isn't all the commnication is done digitally now? It could be improved, but that's like speeding up the fast parts of a program -- not going to make a big difference. The substantial part of the job is finding those people and asking them to please sign. But it's not terribly hard. -- 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.