From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Alexandre Garreau <galex-713@galex-713.eu>
Cc: eliz@gnu.org, theophilusx@gmail.com, rpluim@gmail.com,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Does service lookup by name work on Windows now?
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 22:31:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1gogai-0008K7-0m@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zhrlgi2q.fsf@portable.galex-713.eu> (message from Alexandre Garreau on Mon, 28 Jan 2019 12:03:25 +0100)
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> So to make the thing not fully negative, would it be useful to recall
> that sometimes we make free software work on Windows so that to offer a
> taste of freedom, and state in this text that in when doing so, we
> prefer to keep this software working on older versions?
It may be useful to mention that point.
> Then recalling it is nowadays commonplace for proprietary software to
> force upgrades (often with multiple anti-features), that this is an
> anti-feature, that this implies an universal backdoor, and that is a
> good reason to go GNU/Linux instead of Windows 8/10, so you might hook
> there the anti-windows-8/10 campaign.
I think there is no need to spread it so far.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-30 3:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-26 11:00 Does service lookup by name work on Windows now? Robert Pluim
2019-01-26 11:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-01-26 12:05 ` Robert Pluim
2019-01-26 12:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-01-26 12:34 ` Robert Pluim
2019-01-26 12:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-01-26 22:46 ` Richard Stallman
2019-01-27 5:11 ` Tim Cross
2019-01-27 21:08 ` Alexandre Garreau
2019-01-27 23:34 ` Richard Stallman
2019-01-28 3:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-01-28 11:03 ` Alexandre Garreau
2019-01-30 3:31 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2019-01-28 10:12 ` Robert Pluim
2019-01-28 15:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-04 13:02 ` Robert Pluim
2019-02-04 16:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-04 16:53 ` Robert Pluim
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