Re: Icon designer wanted (Aquamacs Emacs)

[Tim McNamara]

Sean Sieger <sean.sieger@gmail.com> writes:

> Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> writes:
>
>    On this I am afraid we have irreconcilable differences.  You (and
>    David) are over-focused on free software in the abstract sense of
>    freedom.  Fine as a principle but it does not increase the
>    freedom of computer users on a daily basis.  IMHO where freedom
>    counts is not in the abstract but at the keyboards and mouses and
>    displays of users.
>
>    If the goal is to promote freedom for computer users and to
>    change the world for the better, then attention must be paid to
>    the useability of free software and removing the obstacles to
>    adoption by the mainstream.  If the goal is to carve out some
>    morally superior stance, then by all means carry on as you are.
>    As far as I can tell, that's all the current approach is going to
>    get you.
>
> What is not reconcilable is your opinion on a GNU mail list and you
> are free to express that. Uncanny.

Usenet newsgroup, in my case.  I subscribe to no GNU mailing lists.
And there is of course nothing irreconcilable about it.