Re: Consideration for Rust contributions in Emacs

[Etienne Prud'homme]

> I'm not familiar with the SaaSS acronym.  I assume it's a modification of 
> "Software as a Service", but Google is not showing me anything with the 
> additional "S".  Could you elaborate or point to a definition?

Service as a Software Substitute[1].  It's a (rightly) pejorative term.
I think the term was coined by Richard Stallman.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.en.html

On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 9:25 PM Lynn Winebarger <owinebar@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 7:26 AM Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> As I explained earlier, it is probably morally fine if the library is
>> free software, as long as it does not promote SaaSS, load proprietary
>> software itself (think web browsers), et cetera.
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>
> I'm not familiar with the SaaSS acronym.  I assume it's a modification of 
> "Software as a Service", but Google is not showing me anything with the 
> additional "S".  Could you elaborate or point to a definition?
>
> Lynn