"Richard M. Stallman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is Google Desktop Search a non-free program? I think that it is. > If so, people should not be installing it on their computers. (The > same is true of Apple's iTunes software.)
I'm sure it is. > Also, it is not a good thing to release software that only runs on > Windows. Doing so effectively encourages people to use Windows, > which is exactly what we want to discourage. I'm not sure if you refer to gds.el or Google Desktop here, but asuming you refer to gds.el, here is my response: My viewpoint is that if I can "stay in Emacs" as much as possible, by writing interfaces to this and that tool or program, that can only be a good thing, for me and for others. Emacs has had things like that before, for example `sql-oracle', which I use a lot, interfaces with Oracle's SQL*Plus tool, which is probably very non-free. In my case I have GD installed on my machine because I think it helps me, and I wanted to interface to it, to make my Emacs experience better. If there were a free replacement I would use that instead and interface to that one. _______________________________________________ Gnu-emacs-sources mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-emacs-sources
