> Secondly, the Snowden leaks were one of the most important events in modern history, and you're on here using them as a cheap way to push your own agenda. Thirdly, RMS hasn't been an active emacs developer for quite awhile, but you're still trying to criticize him.
I don't see where you got any of that. I read point #11 as citing RMS in his capacity as an authority on GNU goals and principles, a capacity in which he still contributes guidance to Emacs and other GNU projects.
Maybe there's some context missing. GNU is an unapologetically political project; decisions are meant to be made not solely in pursuit of some narrow definition of technical superiority or correctness, but being mindful of their effects on the free software movement and human societies in general. From that perspective, it's completely reasonable to be surprised if a GNU project appears to be out of alignment with a major sociopolitical concern of RMS. For example, if GCC 9.0 were released under the original BSD license, people would be surprised and concerned for fundamentally similar reasons.
I don't see where you got any of that. I read point #11 as citing RMS in his capacity as an authority on GNU goals and principles, a capacity in which he still contributes guidance to Emacs and other GNU projects.
Maybe there's some context missing. GNU is an unapologetically political project; decisions are meant to be made not solely in pursuit of some narrow definition of technical superiority or correctness, but being mindful of their effects on the free software movement and human societies in general. From that perspective, it's completely reasonable to be surprised if a GNU project appears to be out of alignment with a major sociopolitical concern of RMS. For example, if GCC 9.0 were released under the original BSD license, people would be surprised and concerned for fundamentally similar reasons.