bug#19633: GNU libtool-2.4.5 released [stable]

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Sergei,

What does any of this have to do with the recent libtool release? please find a 
more suitable forum to grind your axe.

regards,
Gary

On Jan 21, 2015, at 5:52 AM, Sergei Steshenko <address@hidden> wrote:

>> ________________________________
>> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
>> To: Sergei Steshenko <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 1:29 AM
>> Subject: Re: bug#19633: GNU libtool-2.4.5 released [stable]
>> 
>> 
>> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
>> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,    ]]]
>> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>> 
>> Ordinary phone calls are no easier or harder to tap than Skype calls,
>> but tapping is a different issue.  The point is that Skype requires
> 
>> nonfree software in your computer.
> 
> I don't give a damn about your classification of free/non-free SW.
> 
> For example, GNU software severely limits end user freedom to do what he 
> wants, e.g. to statically link it with certain kinds of non-GNU software, to 
> distribute software in binary only form, to keep to himself modifications of 
> source code while distributing binaries, etc.
> 
> So, calling GNU software free is hypocrisy.
> 
> Furthermore, if you look at the hard facts, i.e. at entities behind GNU 
> software, you will inevitably come to the conclusion GNU software is a 
> corporate one, and thus most likely GPL expresses corporate interests - 
> opposed to interests of individuals.
> 
> The hard facts presented, for example, here:
> http://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/members and here: 
> https://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/steering.html .
> 
> If you ever read anything about true motives of NSA spying which you mention, 
> one of true motives is industrial espionage, and Linux, probably the flagship 
> project of GNU, is supported by the same big corporate entities in whose 
> interests the spying is performed.
> 
> 
> 
> The main point is that you do not care about end users, you care about 
> promoting GNU (and thus most likely your personal) agenda.
> 
> Using Ekiga, as well as using ordinary phone calls, does not improve end user 
> security, but using encryption does.
> 
> GNU movement is ruled by guru <-> disciples approach, i.e. many simply 
> regurgitate what you say and do what you suggest. And that is why I have 
> called you agent provocateur - instead of advising individuals what to do in 
> order to decrease the chance of being spied on you suggest the behavior which 
> makes spying by the powers that be as easy as ever.
> 
> And in the light of this the suggestion not to use Skype is even more 
> sinister. Skype uses encrypted communications, but the US government has back 
> door to it. I am not sure governments in other countries have back doors to 
> Skype, so using Skype individuals in other countries might be safer compared 
> to using Ekiga ordinary phone calls.
> 
>> 
>> I don't know of a free program for preventing phone tapping.
> 
>> Tox may do the job.
> 
> Did you mean Tor (https://www.torproject.org/ ) ?
> I have many times written to you: use zfone: http://zfoneproject.com/ .
> 
> 
> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> 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 Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.
> 
> 
> 
> GNU software is not free software. GPL is a typical corporate cartel piece of 
> legislature protecting corporate interests. Opposed to interests of 
> individuals.
> 
> --Sergei.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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