Re: Proposal for an Emacs User Survey

[Richard Stallman]

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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)
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