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Re: Please don't refer to Emacs as "open source"
From: |
Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: Please don't refer to Emacs as "open source" |
Date: |
Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:36:21 -0400 |
It's like someone on the street
loudly complaining that the system of government is wrong to a pollster
asking who you're gonna vote on the next election.
Exactly. That person is aware that the poll will give a false picture
of where he stands, no matter how he answers. Imagine a Green Party
supporter facing a survey that asks him to answer from 0 to 10, where
0 means Republican and 10 means Democrat, and that asks him to rate
various proposed methods to keep the price of fossil fuel low.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
51 Franklin St
Boston MA 02110
USA
www.fsf.org, www.gnu.org
Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software.
Use free telephony http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/
- Re: Please don't refer to Emacs as "open source", (continued)
- Re: Please don't refer to Emacs as "open source", Sean Sieger, 2011/06/15
- Re: Please don't refer to Emacs as "open source", Antoine Levitt, 2011/06/15
- Re: Please don't refer to Emacs as "open source", Sean Sieger, 2011/06/15
- Re: Please don't refer to Emacs as "open source", Antoine Levitt, 2011/06/15
- Re: Please don't refer to Emacs as "open source", Richard Stallman, 2011/06/15
- Re: Please don't refer to Emacs as "open source", Miles Bader, 2011/06/16
- Re: Please don't refer to Emacs as "open source", Jambunathan K, 2011/06/16
- Re: Please don't refer to Emacs as "open source", Richard Stallman, 2011/06/16
- Re: Please don't refer to Emacs as "open source", Jambunathan K, 2011/06/15
- Re: Please don't refer to Emacs as "open source", Antoine Levitt, 2011/06/15
- Re: Please don't refer to Emacs as "open source",
Richard Stallman <=
- Re: Please don't refer to Emacs as "open source", Andreas Röhler, 2011/06/16
- Re: Please don't refer to Emacs as "open source", Jambunathan K, 2011/06/16
- Re: Please don't refer to Emacs as "open source", Andreas Röhler, 2011/06/16
- Re: Please don't refer to Emacs as "open source", address@hidden, 2011/06/16
- Re: Please don't refer to Emacs as "open source", Andreas Röhler, 2011/06/16
- Re: Please don't refer to Emacs as "open source", David Kastrup, 2011/06/16
- Re: Please don't refer to Emacs as "open source", Stephen J. Turnbull, 2011/06/16