From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Grammar checking in Emacs Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 22:51:36 -0500 Message-ID: References: <14139634.W7bVFoZECn@galex-713.eu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="32327"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: mardani29@yahoo.es, galex-713@galex-713.eu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 18 04:52:58 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mnYTp-0008CR-4s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2021 04:52:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35496 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mnYTn-0001tZ-Kl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 17 Nov 2021 22:52:55 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:53072) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mnYSY-0000Sf-B4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Nov 2021 22:51:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=60528 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mnYSW-0008A9-Nt; Wed, 17 Nov 2021 22:51:36 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=9ggWpJlqvtdjitrOVLANkqr02ZSqk5K4cY1QM4Rz1gA=; b=f+TXUbF3oYUD pWLa5R6Y+vwyNeQqgjkXMh1Z8GwPtOux3iHulh1blLu6UJSY0adX77V99TQG1poLo3wInYNhP1NkS qwaNRjlnQEZnHhGMr9X3lp8guRJgJYoCb/cnWuiR82CIBedD5uh7vnySLwCU7o6r/2L3eH/I5F6na INkzkzSpEMc7Ko+hGOsCqarJIbFRPCfe7EfZH0ziSvdGmHI27p8Kv+3m66vB+ngyrurkVUd/hATo5 841SrdqCZmbVJcIFdYqZ9J/j4I2Mdu5WAks43XW+eoD0UIxoHY7w18SpdOdfPDpk06wu5z0/r+ec6 E8huCZnmo/BUX6Bvz5K/pA==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mnYSW-0007Rb-KF; Wed, 17 Nov 2021 22:51:36 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 16 Nov 2021 09:30:07 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:279652 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 wonder if the increasing tendency to write software extensions as > > servers instead of libraries is calculated not only to promote SaaSS and > > dependency, but even to promote a way of interfacing software that allows > > circumventing copyleft… > I'm pretty sure that's of no concern. > "Don't attribute to malice that which ...." I too think it unlikely that this reflects a plan intended to harm the free software movement. I don't think they care that much about us. But then, their motives are a side issue; what matters is the effect. Whether it is a plan to harm us, a plan to increase their profits, a plan to make users increasingly captive, or no plan at all, we need to address the effect on our goals. Whether intentionally or not, designing computational features to be used over the network tends to deny users the possibility of control over their computing. and to weaken our defenses. It also tends to create more opportunities for general surveillance. What should we do about it? We should push it away from us. We should, by policy, _not_ add features to Emacs that naturally work with across-the-network computational features, and instead add new Emacs features whose natural mode of operation works with code running on the same computer as Emacs. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)