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If the goal is to encourage people to use GNU software and potentially even migrate to a full GNU system, I find this policy counterintuitive. It comes off as n
by kitsunesoba 10y ago
If the goal is to encourage people to use GNU software and potentially even migrate to a full GNU system, I find this policy counterintuitive. It comes off as needless and antagonistic and it pushes me further away from GNU and towards free software that's not so tangled up in rigid philosophies, or worse, proprietary software.
- beedogs 10y agoThen, by all means, go use whatever software you want. There's a place for ideological purists in software and I for one am glad RMS is around.
- raverbashing 10y agoDid you expect anything tasteful or coherent from RMS?
- gutnor 10y ago> It comes off as needless and antagonistic That's because that comes directly from the commercial companies rulebook. Apple (for example) will not make an application that runs better on Android or Windows than on one of its OS. It would not be beside any of the big brand to remove something that was working before just because that remove a tiny bit of interest in their own platform. That makes cruel business sense ... and they are also hated for it when it happens.
- pYQAJ6Zm 10y agoIf you discover Emacs on macOS, and like among other things the multicolor feature, then decide to try the Full GNU Experience™ and find that that feature is not supported on the flagship (!) GNU product, well, then maybe you’ll be back to macOS after all. Let’s not forget that thanks to its libre licensing this is a strategic issue, but not a technical one – recovering the removed features on macOS is a few patches away.