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Re: lldb support


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: lldb support
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 17:30:20 -0500

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  > I strongly agree. Inhibiting users' freedom to choose other *free* software,
  > because that other free software is not part of the GNU project, makes it
  > sound like the ubiquity of the GNU project, and not user freedom, is the 
goal.

I am not sure what course of action is best here, but this sort of
argument are not cogent because it is a fundamental misunderstanding.
This decision has no effect on any user's freedom.

The developers of a free program never have a moral obligation
to support any particular platform or interoperation, because users
who don't like their decision are free to change the code.

When the developers of a free program decide which features to
include, including which platforms or interoperation to support, the
question at stake is not what uses to _allow_, but rather which uses
to _facilitate_.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org)
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