Re: Clojure mode

[Ryan Tate]

rms 26 Aug 2023:

> If we install a command called clojure-mode in the core Emacs, that will in a 
> sense be the preferred one.

This is plainly a freedom 0 violation, intentionally thwarting a user’s wish to 
install a particular piece of software through the raw exercise of situational, 
incidental power never intentionally granted for this purpose. 

The work of bbatsov and others has created the reputation and meaning of 
“clojure-mode.” To simply steal the fruits of that labor, and to trick users, 
through you situational power to bundle is abusive and wrong. It mirrors the 
behavior of some of the most avaricious venture-capital funded startups (even 
if the reasoning is nominally ideological rather than capitalist). 

As a longtime user of (and onetime patch contributor to) emacs, and as an 
active user of clojure mode and CIDER, I find it disappointing this is even 
being considered. Build a version of the mode under another license if you wish 
but get your own name rather than stealing one.