Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

[Claudio Saavedra <csaavedra gnome org>]

On Thu, 2013-08-15 at 13:54 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
>         [ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider
>         [ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,
>         [ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example.
>
>     We should pick our fights, on the other hand, GitHub has released more
>     open source code and tools than the gitorious community.
>
> In connection with GNOME, please say "free/libre", not "open source".
>
> See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html
> for more explanation of the difference between free software and open
> source.  See also http://thebaffler.com/past/the_meme_hustler for
> Evgeny Morozov's article on the same point.

Richard, is this an automated email reply? Because from the context of
the discussion I was expecting a more thoughtful intervention than this
one. :)

Claudio