Re: Rethinking the design of xwidgets

[Arthur Miller]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>
>   > Also, some vendors have started offering machines with IME disabled 
>   > (System76, Purism, and, most recently, Dell):
>
>   > 
> https://www.extremetech.com/computing/259879-dell-now-shipping-laptops-intels-management-engine-disabled
>
> I know about Purism, but this news about Dell may be interesting.
> Thanks.
I just looked up at dell.se; I don't see it mentioned that they have
disabled ME; the article is from 2017. I can't even choose to buy it
without Windows.

> However, now that this is not directly related to Emacs development
> (since that question has been cleared up), how about if those
> interested (including me) discuss this privately?

Sure, we can keep it off the emacs-devel; but in a way it is related: it
decides what Emacs will/can do or not, regardless of technical aspect.