Re: Emacs project mission (was Re: "If you're still seeing problems, please reopen.")

[Richard Stallman]

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  > We are not endorsing any of them when we ask our users to report bugs
  > and contribute code.  We welcome and gratefully accept any such bug
  > reports and code contributions, and don't request those who contribute
  > to pledge allegiance to the ideals of the GNU Project or free software
  > in general.  Exactly like becoming an official maintainer of a GNU
  > project does not require one to agree with the goals of GNU, it only
  > requires one to heed to the policies specified by the GNU Project.

This is entirely true.  However, this is a different issue
from the one that was raised by the following cited text:

> > I think the idea is that most people nowadays have some kind of
> > account already -- either in gmail, or in facebook, or in one of the
> > other services that GitLab is capable of using instead of a GitLab
> > specific registration.


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Dr Richard Stallman
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)