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Re: official Emacs Docker image
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: official Emacs Docker image |
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Sat, 04 Feb 2017 18:54:16 -0500 |
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> Look this way: They could have rendered the whole html that you see in the
> server side, and still there are tons of websites that do that. and in that
> case you would have just the bare html and css in your hands,
That's the way they SHOULD do it.
which doesn't
> change the fact that you are using non-free software that generates that
> html;
No you aren't. That code isn't working for you. It's working for the
owner of the web server, and that's who should have control over it.
> but instead they chose to split the software: they hand it to your browser
> a piece of the software in js so that you can have a more dynamic
> experience.
That's exactly what's wrong: trying to run their code on my computer,
without giving me control over it.
I don't expect or ask to have control over the code that runs on their
web server. That code is doing their computing(*), so I think they
ought to have control over it. I don't have a copy of it in any form
-- neither source nor binary.
However, I insist on having control over the code that runs on my
computer. It has to be free, and I should be able to install a
different version and change it.
> I trust that
> it is written in a way that stops client js code from doing harm to my
> privacy and freedom.
If you're running it and you don't have control over it, that is
denying you freedom.
See https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html.
* That's nornally the case, but there are exceptions. If that code is
doing my computing, then it is SaaSS, which is wrong. See
https://gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org)
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