Re: Proposal for an Emacs User Survey

[Thibaut Verron]

> The Reddit page is hidden propaganda, they said "they contacted
> emacs-devel but got no response" which is not true.

Where exactly? The exact statement I find is this:

> From there I got a lot of feedback around the set of questions itself but 
> also how to distribute it. You can find the whole thread on the archives 
> under "Proposal for an Emacs User Survey".

That's quite far from "I got no response", so I'm curious as to which
message you refer to.

>
> > I'm not saying the obfuscation is purposeful either in the case of
> > `MELPA' imitating the name of the existing `GNU ELPA', or of Adrien
> > calling his survey *The* Emacs User survey", but what I do think is that
> > all non-GNU initiatives that affect perception of GNU, particularly the
> > ones that clearly do not share the GNU philosophy (the survey referred
> > to `GNU/Linux' as `Linux', for example), would seem much more
> > transparent if they were very clearly and visibly labeled as
> > unofficial.
>
> If it would be some belief or only philosophy, fine, but it is not. It
> is technical term.
>
> Obviously people do not call "Linux" for Android operating system,
> neither they call Android GNU because it is not GNU. Yet it runs on
> Linux kernel. Also Replicant operating system is not called
> GNU/Replicant as it is not GNU, so it is Replicant, operating system
> running in Linux kernel.
>
> Linux when published by Linus Torvalds in beginning, there is where he
> said that you need GNU for operating system, Linux is only kernel. How
> more clearer than that can it be?
>
> Now when somebody says: Archlinux that is derived name, it can be
> named of operating system. By the way, Archlinux is promoting
> proprietary software without differences, so I cannot recommend it.
>
> Jean
>