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Re: Icon designer wanted (Aquamacs Emacs)
From: |
Tim McNamara |
Subject: |
Re: Icon designer wanted (Aquamacs Emacs) |
Date: |
Fri, 06 Jan 2006 23:00:35 -0600 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (darwin) |
Sean Sieger <sean.sieger@gmail.com> writes:
> Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> writes:
>
> On this I am afraid we have irreconcilable differences. You (and
> David) are over-focused on free software in the abstract sense of
> freedom. Fine as a principle but it does not increase the
> freedom of computer users on a daily basis. IMHO where freedom
> counts is not in the abstract but at the keyboards and mouses and
> displays of users.
>
> If the goal is to promote freedom for computer users and to
> change the world for the better, then attention must be paid to
> the useability of free software and removing the obstacles to
> adoption by the mainstream. If the goal is to carve out some
> morally superior stance, then by all means carry on as you are.
> As far as I can tell, that's all the current approach is going to
> get you.
>
> What is not reconcilable is your opinion on a GNU mail list and you
> are free to express that. Uncanny.
Usenet newsgroup, in my case. I subscribe to no GNU mailing lists.
And there is of course nothing irreconcilable about it.
- Re: Icon designer wanted (Aquamacs Emacs), (continued)
- Re: Icon designer wanted (Aquamacs Emacs), Luis O. Silva, 2006/01/05
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- Re: Icon designer wanted (Aquamacs Emacs), Tim McNamara, 2006/01/06
- Re: Icon designer wanted (Aquamacs Emacs), David Kastrup, 2006/01/06
- Re: Icon designer wanted (Aquamacs Emacs), Sean Sieger, 2006/01/06
- Re: Icon designer wanted (Aquamacs Emacs), Paul D. Smith, 2006/01/06
- Re: Icon designer wanted (Aquamacs Emacs), Kevin Rodgers, 2006/01/06
- Re: Icon designer wanted (Aquamacs Emacs), Lennart Borgman, 2006/01/06
- Re: Icon designer wanted (Aquamacs Emacs), Luis O. Silva, 2006/01/06
- Re: Icon designer wanted (Aquamacs Emacs), Björn Lindström, 2006/01/06
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- Re: Icon designer wanted (Aquamacs Emacs), David Kastrup, 2006/01/06
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- Re: Icon designer wanted (Aquamacs Emacs),
Tim McNamara <=
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- Re: Icon designer wanted (Aquamacs Emacs), Tim McNamara, 2006/01/07
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- Re: Icon designer wanted (Aquamacs Emacs), david . reitter, 2006/01/07
- Re: Icon designer wanted (Aquamacs Emacs), David Kastrup, 2006/01/07
- Re: Icon designer wanted (Aquamacs Emacs), david . reitter, 2006/01/09