Re: non-gnu elpa issue tracking

[Richard Stallman]

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  > Bigger picture there is that Github made plans to trap developres to
  > depend of Github only by providing various server side apps that
  > exists only in Github. That is computing for users on the server. They
  > call it Marketplace: https://github.com/marketplace

Most of these facilities of GitHub are SaaSS; we urge users to
reject them and release free programs to do these jobs.

  > - Slack + GitHub, Connect your code without leaving Slack

Slack is not SaaSS -- it is a service that requires running a nonfree
client program.  Therefore we condemn it.  See stallman.org/slack.html.

  > Please somebody make me wrong, but majority of those server side
  > services recommended by Github are computing for users especially for
  > free software developers, and all of them are proprietary software,
  > right?

If I understand right, the software they use to implement this is
_private_.  We do not know anything about it.  It might include some
free software and some nonfree.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)