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Re: gtranslate.el --- google translation
From: |
Uwe Brauer |
Subject: |
Re: gtranslate.el --- google translation |
Date: |
Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:25:51 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) XEmacs/21.4.21 (linux) |
>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> Here is my first contribution to the open-source world, and first
> meaningful chunk of emacs-lisp! :-)
> Thanks for contributing to Emacs -- but please don't refer to our
> community with the term "open-source". That is an amoral approach to
> the issue, and we disagree with it. What we do is called "free
> software".
> (Your name looks French; in French it is called « logiciel libre ».)
> Google translation suffers from a problem: it is Software as a
> Service. I'm writing an article about why that is a bad thing for
> users' freedom.
I am looking forward for your article. I frankly use this translation
service quite often (but with babel.el) and can't imagine why this could
be a problem for users' freedom other that it prevents them for writing
up an equivalent service under GPL.