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Re: Why Host Emacs Packages on GitHub? (Microsoft vs Freedom)

I comment on my reasoning for hosting my free software (Emacs packages) on GitHub.

Unless there is a movement that pushes for such reforms in shared spaces, city halls, and parliaments, us technical folks will be sitting here trying to work out the possibilities of a free society in our inconsequential thought experiments. The GNU IMP is available on non-free platforms (as is Emacs, by the way), meaning that your average computer user, like me from the early 2010s, can be introduced to a community that works for one aspect of freedom. We have a well-known figure, the pioneer of free software whom I respect for that, Richard Stallman, who prides on not using loyalty cards, phones, and the like, but then admits that in those cases where those items are beneficial or unavoidable he has someone else take the hit on his behalf (for an introduction: https://stallman.org/rms-lifestyle.html).

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