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Re: Emacs Webapp/Plugin
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs Webapp/Plugin |
Date: |
Sun, 29 Jul 2012 09:54:49 +0900 |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> Someone tell me again why it is a bad idea to develop a
> Chrome/Chromium (browser or Chrome OS) plugin that is
> essentially just the basic Emacs bits that we know and love?
>
> For one thing, I am concerned people might use it in Chrome, which
> is nonfree software with a universal back door. If that caught on,
> it would be a disaster in terms of our primary goal: giving users
> freedom.
Wait, doesn't Emacs run on lots of nonfree systems?
> The underlying premise is that there are no "desktop" apps
> available on this imagined system, just web apps and browser
> plugins.
Is this a meaningful distinction? I mean, on a system where the
browser is the main "shell," and the browser makes sufficiently
powerful mechanisms available, isn't a web app / browser plugin an
"app" as far as the user can tell?
> That IS a disaster, in terms of users' freedom. It pushes users
> into total dependence on servers.
What if it's their server ...?
-miles
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Re: Emacs Webapp/Plugin, Richard Stallman, 2012/07/28
- Re: Emacs Webapp/Plugin,
Miles Bader <=
- Re: Emacs Webapp/Plugin, Paul Michael Reilly, 2012/07/29
- Re: Emacs Webapp/Plugin, Richard Stallman, 2012/07/29
- Re: Emacs Webapp/Plugin, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2012/07/29
- Re: Emacs Webapp/Plugin, joakim, 2012/07/30
- Re: Emacs Webapp/Plugin, Richard Stallman, 2012/07/31
- Re: Emacs Webapp/Plugin, chad, 2012/07/31
Re: Emacs Webapp/Plugin, Richard Stallman, 2012/07/31