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: help Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2023 23:25:15 -0500 Message-ID: References: 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="34613"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: josh parson Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 16 05:25:58 2023 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 1pHH4H-0008o3-S8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 16 Jan 2023 05:25:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pHH3e-0006iY-VU; Sun, 15 Jan 2023 23:25:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pHH3c-0006iD-JT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Jan 2023 23:25:16 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pHH3b-0005XZ-Nf; Sun, 15 Jan 2023 23:25:16 -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=FB6LDcWx9Rfr7lHpk+infzeOANynrGx0jG98lpY0RlI=; b=K6agrzP0Zzs0 XH1njBStmA/3n3zRYk5X6R2sxnyxr/E7GzNG5H5U+bDPOYiKbMLkI/fdkFQJNEO59CFg6vuh4ECaq YpEAcErg680ochcEKgvV2mF4k+oPALbBhz6hZPDoK1aLgFKsK5cGMSZ7MGNdHqLoy++8bywmq79oC zM0oAk305JdhyNg7hQ+h32tQO9b8qurv+ypo+CmMtaHMkTUtoD8CykYH6alMHqjDdOoim2Vj8sN5J ZTr3Ws5p3h1gUS6eRKFZu1/gP31iNB+SN56rILqkzeK76K0PiZFHNNBL1M/wG5VABPCGV+rOsRG9H b4pPhyp8miIXlpE3I3RBHQ==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pHH3b-0005AV-1M; Sun, 15 Jan 2023 23:25:15 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from josh parson on Thu, 12 Jan 2023 21:43:56 -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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:302441 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. ]]] > Hi, I'm Josh. I'm relatively new to open source development and wanted to > work on something I was passionate about (EMACs), Thank you for being interested in contributing to GNU Emacs. The main developers can suggest something to try implementing. I should explain that we don't use the term "open source" to describe what we are doing. We call it "free software" -- free as in freedom. A free program respects users' freedom; a nonfree program denies users freedom. See fsf.org/tedx for an introduction to the idea of the free software movement, followed by https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html "Open source" is a business-friendly offshoot of the free software movement. It dismissses the issue of computing freedom as a concern and focuses on practical benefits such as technical progress. If you contribute well to GNU Emacs, we won't ask you about your philosophical views. We'll simply appreciate your help. But it's important for you to know what this is all about. Don't be surprised if we have policies that diverge from what you're used to, because our goals also diverge from what our society is used to. -- 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)