Re: conflicts in the gnu project now affect guile

2019-10-17 Thread Richard Stallman
Richard Stallman Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)

Re: conflicts in the gnu project now affect guile

2019-10-17 Thread Richard Stallman
use they know they > have support from a faction of the FSF board. I don't think so. -- Dr Richard Stallman Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)

Re: Rename GNU fdisk to GUILE diskutils

2017-12-14 Thread Richard Stallman
of the _package_ that will contain this program and others. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.

Re: Rename GNU fdisk to GUILE diskutils

2017-12-13 Thread Richard Stallman
uot; for various different systems. I don't think there is any other "Guile Diskutils". So there is no reason we should not use that name. Is there already a "Guile Diskutils"? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Inter

Re: Rename GNU fdisk to GUILE diskutils

2017-12-13 Thread Richard Stallman
uile affects prerequisites. He thinks it would be inconvenient to put Guile-dependent programs and non-Guile-dependent programs together in one package. What do the rest of you think about this? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-

Re: A Warning from Ian Grant

2014-10-07 Thread Richard Stallman
to talk with a lawyer about what he said, go ahead. But don't circulated the threats to us. -- 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

Re: Reinterpreting the compiler source code

2014-09-06 Thread Richard Stallman
and program in this language instead. I was not interested in that. However, as a scheme to verify our tools and keep using them, it might make sense. I can't judge how effective this sort of proof might be, but I won't reject the idea. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51

Re: GNU Thunder

2014-09-04 Thread Richard Stallman
. It is an imponderable. There are limits to how much effort we should make to deal with the imponderable possibilities of sabotage. Especially since there is so much else we know that we need to do. To throw away all our software because of these possibilities would not make sense. -- Dr Richard Stallman

Re: Reinterpreting the compiler source code

2014-09-04 Thread Richard Stallman
be a substantial job. I think it would need funding. I don't know how to get such funding, but maybe someone else does. -- 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

Re: GNU Thunder

2014-09-03 Thread Richard Stallman
automatically to many localised changes. Who knows. It is an imponderable. The reason I am not interested in focusing on this problem, which is conceivable, is that (1) it seems unlikely and (2) we face other problems that are just as bad and that are real for certain. -- Dr Richard Stallman President

Re: GNU Thunder

2014-08-23 Thread Richard Stallman
of discussion, it would be more effective to format it readably as ASCII and mail us the text. -- 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.