Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 09.01.2021 08:34, Richard Stallman wrote:
> [[[ 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. ]]]
>
>    > > If the goal of the GNU project is to eliminate non-free software, why
>
>    > Eliminate it by ignoring it, I take it.
>
> You have misrepresented one of the secondary things we do
> while denying all the rest.  The only point that expresses
> is your hostility, and that harms our discussion here.

This is humor. Sarcasm may be the lowest form, but there's little left 
that I can use to underline the imbalance in your collective position.

And consider that this is exactly how it looks to a lot of people in our 
community. Which would be a valuable piece of info if you care about the 
said community and GNU's perception in it.

I suppose Eli conveyed the same point better in a more recent email, 
though, in a language that could be closer to your line of thinking.

> Please pay attention to the Kind Communications Guidelines,
> so you can express your recommendations in ways that contribute
> to our work rather than hampering it.

Have you considered that condemning fellow FLOSS projects as "promoting 
proprietary software" is unkind? One could even call it libel.

I get it that it might be hard for you to reverse what seems to be a 
decades-long policy, but you could at least ask Alfred and Jean to tone 
the rhetoric down a bit. To keep our discussions more constructive.