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Re: New maintainer
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John Wiegley |
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Re: New maintainer |
Date: |
Mon, 05 Oct 2015 12:13:03 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (darwin) |
>>>>> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> I define freedom as "having control of one's own life". Freedom in one's
> computing means having control over how it is done, which requires control
> over the software that does it.
Even those of us who are fine using proprietary software have been bitten by
its lack of freedom. Why, I can't even run OS X on hardware of my own
choosing!
Let me be clear on the question of freedom: while I have disagreements with
you, I also don't consider any existing alternative to be ideal. I see pros
and cons in all of them. I choose BSD3 for my own software because it
represents the least commitment to any specific path.
So while I may disagree with the GPL as "The Way", I'm not opposed to helping
it succeed a little bit either. I think all these experiments need more time,
before we'll discover what truly helps our society progress in the ways we all
want it to.
> Your church analogy was a good one, but let's make sure no one
> misunderstands it as more than an analogy. The Church of Emacs is pure
> humor.
The church analogy, qua analogy, was pretty excellent. Point taken!
John
- Re: New maintainer, (continued)
- Re: New maintainer, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer, David Kastrup, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer, Michael Westbom, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer, Richard Stallman, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer, Jens K. Loewe, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer, Ricardo Wurmus, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer, Richard Stallman, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer, Richard Stallman, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer, Richard Stallman, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer,
John Wiegley <=
- Re: New maintainer, Richard Stallman, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer, Andreas Röhler, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer, John Wiegley, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer, David Kastrup, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer, John Wiegley, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer, Christopher Allan Webber, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer, Juanma Barranquero, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer, Rasmus, 2015/10/08
- Re: New maintainer, Karl Fogel, 2015/10/08