Re: Proposal for an Emacs User Survey

[Richard Stallman]

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  > This is a weaker suggestion: Maybe packages could have a tag to signal
  > that they are related to proprietary software, that could be then
  > displayed both via list-packages and describe-package?

This approach depends on any number of people that we don't know
to include a special marker whenever they release packages that lead
the user to nonfree software.  Since these people eapparently
don't agree with our basic ideas about such packages, I don't think
we could count on them to do that.

  > > EP is not meaningful to those who don't know what it means.  But
  > > neither is ELPA.  People understand it only if they have been told.
  > > So EP is no worse than ELPA.
  > >
  > > WDYT?

  > There shouldn't be any reason for ELPA to rename itself, it should be
  > clear that MELPA is not official, as it is not pre-configured.

I have a feeling we are miscommunicating somehow here.  The point of
the renaming is simply to avoid a natural confusion in the minds of
people.


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Dr Richard Stallman
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