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Re: Casting as wide a net as possible
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raman |
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Re: Casting as wide a net as possible |
Date: |
Fri, 11 Dec 2015 08:14:34 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
well said! > [[[ 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. ]]]
>
> > My thought was that what Emacs needs before all else is more
> > users. Period.
>
> We would like more people to use Emacs, but we should never think
> that we _need_ more users. When developers of a free software package
> think they _need_ more users, it is a lever that can be used
> to push them into bad decisions.
>
> When some people use Emacs, they are getting benefit from our work.
> We are glad it benefits them, we intended it to benefit users, and we
> hope to make it benefit them more, but we don't _need_ them to be
> pleased with our work. We're the ones who did them a favor -- not
> vice versa.
>
> Likewise, when some people don't use Emacs, that's their loss, not our
> loss.
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- Re: Casting as wide a net as possible, (continued)
- Re: Casting as wide a net as possible, Richard Stallman, 2015/12/11
- Re: Casting as wide a net as possible, covici, 2015/12/10
- Re: Casting as wide a net as possible, Marcin Borkowski, 2015/12/10
- Re: Casting as wide a net as possible, Adrian . B . Robert, 2015/12/14
- Re: Casting as wide a net as possible, raman, 2015/12/14
- Re: Casting as wide a net as possible, John Wiegley, 2015/12/14
Re: Casting as wide a net as possible (was: First draft of the Emacs website), Richard Stallman, 2015/12/11
- Re: Casting as wide a net as possible,
raman <=
Re: Casting as wide a net as possible, Filipp Gunbin, 2015/12/14
- Re: Casting as wide a net as possible, Yuri Khan, 2015/12/14
- Re: Casting as wide a net as possible, Filipp Gunbin, 2015/12/14
- Re: Casting as wide a net as possible, Random832, 2015/12/14
- Re: Casting as wide a net as possible, Yuri Khan, 2015/12/14
- Re: Casting as wide a net as possible, Filipp Gunbin, 2015/12/15
- Re: Casting as wide a net as possible, Random832, 2015/12/15
- Re: Casting as wide a net as possible, Random832, 2015/12/15