Re: New maintainer

[Richard Stallman]

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  > Furthermore, shouldn't it be the right of a free user to use a non-free
  > system at his own will?

We have never tried to people from running nonfree programs.
You seem to be attacking something that didn't come from us.

  > I guess as a Windows and BSD user I'm out of the game though - I
  > disagree with some of the points the GPL makes and I'll always prefer
  > the BSD infrastructure to GNU; but I really like working with
  > Emacs.

We are happy to accept contributions from BSD users -- I am sure you
have seen this -- and BSD is sufficiently similar to GNU that it
should not be an impediment in practice.

It is simply a matter of whether you wish to contribute.

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Dr Richard Stallman
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