Re: sourceforge miseries

[Jean L. <bu...@gn...>]

On Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 06:41:58PM -0400, Sam Steingold wrote:
> > * Jean Louis <ohtf@tah.fhccbeg> [2018-04-10 00:25:06 +0200]:
> >
> > I would also say that plethora of mailing lists
> > are hosted with GNU.org http://lists.gnu.org/ and
> > that CLISP mailing list would be great there, as
> > one can download all archives down and there is
> > web interface to browse there. And all mail can be
> > converted into it easily.
> 
> I am afraid that they will censor our mailing lists by prohibiting
> discussions of software which they deem "non-free".
> E.g., if someone uses, say, Matlab of Netica interface to CLISP, they
> might demand that each mention of Matlab is accompanied with a political
> statement promoting the Octave alternative.
> 
> If you look at the emacs-devel mailing list, every mention of "linux" is
> met with a diatribe that it should be called "gnu/linux" instead.
> 
> I did not toe the party line back in the USSR,
> I will not do it here in the US.

That is not true Sam. Sorry, why have such wrong
perception. Yes there are these and those groups,
but this is your group, and you can get mailing
list and mention Matlab and Linux as you wish. It
really does not matter.

In fact, if you refer to operating system as Linux
it is deceptive in itself... ;-) It should be
mentioned as GNU/Linux or GNU with kernel
Linux. Unless it is not GNU, for example it may be
Android.

Jean