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Re: Three cheers for Eli!


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Three cheers for Eli!
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2018 17:58:05 +0300

> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2018 22:32:54 -0400
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
>   > > The term "inclusive development projects" might fit your concept.
>   > > Or "community-contribution software projects".
>   > >
> 
>   > ​Neither suggestion rolls off my tongue.  How about "community-based"?
> 
> That term has various possible interpretations, and some of them do
> not fit GNU Emacs.  People might take it to imply a project that is
> independent and run by whoever participates.  That is not how a GNU
> package works.

Maybe I'm missing something: is there a problem to say "free software
and open-source projects"?  There's no doubt open-source projects do
exist, it's just that GNU projects are not among them.  But if someone
wants to name them all collectively, where's the problem in that?



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