Re: Emacs vista build failures

[David Kastrup]

Richard M Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     I should think the kind of people desirous of being steered rarely ends
>     up at our doorstep.
>
> I doubt there is anyone so firm of will and so sure of his views
> that he is never influenced by the views he hears presented by others.
> Our words always tend to influence people, by what they
> take for granted as well as what they say.  That is why we
> should not take for granted that people use non-free software,
> or that they should.

I think you are missing my point.  Those people likely to be on our side
are probably not best recruited by pontification and patronization.
They can have that where they are coming from.

We have something to offer them, not something to take from them.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum