Re: Release plans

[Paul R]

Hi !

On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:13:47 +0900, "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> said:

SJT> I really don't get this. You are basically taking the open source
SJT> route here. "People don't like to be free, so let's not tell them
SJT> about freedom -- let's make it relatively inconvenient to use
SJT> proprietary code." Why not wait for the non-free modules, and
SJT> then publish a boycott list of such modules, give them a public
SJT> dressing- down, and in that way draw attention to the issue of
SJT> freedom?

Stephen is right. We should never respond to a "*possible* lack of
freedom for some hypotetical consenting users" with a solution that
implies an *evident* lack of (technical) freedom for all Emacs fellow
users.

Really, here the cure harms more than the disease.

-- 
  Paul