From: raman <raman@google.com>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org>
Subject: Re: Casting as wide a net as possible
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 08:14:34 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p91twnparo5.fsf@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1a7Hp3-0008Hx-7t@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri, 11 Dec 2015 02:08:57 -0500")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
well said! > [[[ 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. ]]]
>
> > My thought was that what Emacs needs before all else is more
> > users. Period.
>
> We would like more people to use Emacs, but we should never think
> that we _need_ more users. When developers of a free software package
> think they _need_ more users, it is a lever that can be used
> to push them into bad decisions.
>
> When some people use Emacs, they are getting benefit from our work.
> We are glad it benefits them, we intended it to benefit users, and we
> hope to make it benefit them more, but we don't _need_ them to be
> pleased with our work. We're the ones who did them a favor -- not
> vice versa.
>
> Likewise, when some people don't use Emacs, that's their loss, not our
> loss.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-11 16:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-10 16:46 Casting as wide a net as possible (was: First draft of the Emacs website) John Yates
2015-12-10 17:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-10 18:56 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-10 19:02 ` Casting as wide a net as possible John Wiegley
2015-12-10 19:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-10 19:48 ` David Kastrup
2015-12-10 20:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-10 20:17 ` David Kastrup
2015-12-10 20:19 ` John Wiegley
2015-12-10 20:50 ` David Kastrup
2015-12-11 7:09 ` Richard Stallman
2015-12-10 19:54 ` covici
2015-12-10 21:21 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-12-14 13:05 ` Adrian.B.Robert
2015-12-14 16:21 ` raman
2015-12-14 18:21 ` John Wiegley
2015-12-11 7:08 ` Casting as wide a net as possible (was: First draft of the Emacs website) Richard Stallman
2015-12-11 16:14 ` raman [this message]
2015-12-14 14:41 ` Casting as wide a net as possible Filipp Gunbin
2015-12-14 15:01 ` Yuri Khan
2015-12-14 17:20 ` Filipp Gunbin
2015-12-14 17:59 ` Random832
2015-12-14 18:19 ` Yuri Khan
2015-12-15 18:12 ` Filipp Gunbin
2015-12-15 18:54 ` Random832
2015-12-15 19:03 ` Random832
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[not found] ` <<fa45f69a-b8df-46f8-8fda-4735dc34e4dc@default>
[not found] ` <<m2d1uenn4h.fsf@newartisans.com>
[not found] ` <<83a8pi9l6o.fsf@gnu.org>
2015-12-10 19:15 ` Drew Adams
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