Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2021 20:59:14 +0300
> From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
> Cc: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>, ams@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org,
>  arthur.miller@live.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > A picture can be modified within an infinite space of possibilities. A book
> > can be modified. A mathematical equation can be modified.
> > 
> > None of the above are software.
> 
> Software
> 
> >From Wordnet dictionary:
> 
> * Overview of noun software

Sigh...

The Free Software movement was born out of this great concept: that
programs are expressions of ideas -- algorithms and methods for
solving complex problems -- and that free exchange of those ideas
benefits mankind, and therefore preventing this free exchange is
harmful.

Now tell me what kind of a useful idea that should be shared do you
find in a data type definition contained in an XML schema, which is
basically a label: when I say "string" I mean this and that?  Is this
what Free Software is about?  Maybe that's a better food for thought
than an abstract definition from Wordnet (which you also mis-interpret
to mean that "data" there means the kind of data we have in a schema).