Re: Proposal for an emacs-humanities mailing list

[Richard Stallman]

[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]

  > The kinds of tips and
  > information that academics will find useful might lend themselves well
  > to a "knowledgebase" sort of presentation, and emacswiki could be ideal
  > for that. We could have a separate area on the wiki, and at the top note
  > that if you want to discuss any of the information in that section,
  > write to emacs-help with such-and-such a prefix.

It might be useful, but it might backfire at a deeper level.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that the people
who set up emacswiki do not have a connection to the GNU Project,
and do not see a problem in advising people to use nonfree software.
More generally, they present nonfree software as acceptable
and not as something we should all shun.

If that is so, directing people to emacswiki exacerbates the promotion
of that point of view.  That would be a reason for us to make some
other choice.  When we ask people to write material about using Emacs,
we would be more effective if we ask people to publish it via gnu.org.

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