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Re: Proposal for an Emacs User Survey
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Proposal for an Emacs User Survey |
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Tue, 20 Oct 2020 01:19:17 -0400 |
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> > Sure, the maintainers of a repo are, in a way,
> > administrators. But should such administrators
> > be changing source code? Adding other code or
> > whatever, to administer, label, treat, etc. the
> > code is, at least conceptually, different from
> > changing the source code itself.
> That is similar to how many GNU/Linux software packages are
> maintained, often they are modified before such enter distribution for
> final users.
> I do not care if package is original, not original, forked or not
> forked, modified, what I care is which group of people is making it
> trusted and by which principles.
That is my view also. Free software means you're allowed to
distribute a modified version. There is nothing wrong with making
changes. The changes are good, or bad, based on what they say.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
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- Re: Proposal to include obligatory PGP verification of packages from any repository, Jean Louis, 2020/10/19
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- Re: Proposal to include obligatory PGP verification of packages from any repository, Stefan Monnier, 2020/10/20
- RE: Proposal for an Emacs User Survey, Drew Adams, 2020/10/19
- Re: Proposal for an Emacs User Survey, Jean Louis, 2020/10/19
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