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Re: How to make Emacs popular again.
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: How to make Emacs popular again. |
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Thu, 01 Oct 2020 23:52:54 -0400 |
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> This said, it is a slippery slope and given the general current context
> where we move every time more in the direction of relying on external
> servers that are not under the control of the user, I do think we should
> be careful not to encourage the use of such remote servers.
That's exactly the cconcern I have.
I am not opposed to supporting free software that can look up words in
remote dictionaries. When you want to do that, we should offer you
free software for that -- and we do.
But we need to be careful about which direction we lead most users to
go.
--
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)
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again., (continued)
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again., Jean Louis, 2020/10/04
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again., Richard Stallman, 2020/10/03
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again., Jean Louis, 2020/10/02
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again., Richard Stallman, 2020/10/02
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again., Jean Louis, 2020/10/03
Re: How to make Emacs popular again., Stefan Monnier, 2020/10/01
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again.,
Richard Stallman <=
Re: How to make Emacs popular again., Richard Stallman, 2020/10/01
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again., Eli Zaretskii, 2020/10/02
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again., Richard Stallman, 2020/10/03
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again., Eli Zaretskii, 2020/10/04
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again., Jean Louis, 2020/10/04
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again., Eli Zaretskii, 2020/10/04
Re: How to make Emacs popular again., Richard Stallman, 2020/10/04
Re: How to make Emacs popular again., Eli Zaretskii, 2020/10/05
Re: How to make Emacs popular again., Richard Stallman, 2020/10/05
Dictionaries better be offline - Re: How to make Emacs popular again., Jean Louis, 2020/10/04