Re: Proposal for an Emacs User Survey

[Richard Stallman]

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  > But a feature available in a non-free program can be a good feature
  > which we might want to add to free programs (assuming that it is
  > possible without compromising on freedom, of course).

The feature, in the abstract, might be good in the sense of
convenient, and we might well want to implement it.  However,
it is clearer to call it "convenient" rather than "good",
to delineate the contrast with the ethical meaning of "good".

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Dr Richard Stallman
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Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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