Is the FSF Fighting the Previous War?
&gt; <i>She says that strict adherence to the FSF’s Respects Your Freedom program means that you’ll be using only obsolete and probably broken hardware.</i><p>Old, like from a time when it respected your freedom more?<p>I don&#x27;t like the insinuation here, which is that we have lost; if you want the shiny new hardware, just shut up and fork over your freedom.<p>Just because <i>you</i> put up a white flag and surrendered doesn&#x27;t mean that those who haven&#x27;t are fighting the &quot;previous war&quot;.<p>If Stallman is &quot;fighting a war that’s no longer going on&quot;, why can&#x27;t you have your freedoms respected on new hardware?<p>&gt; <i>If you’re particularly masochistic, here’s the start of the thread on Emacs-Devel.</i><p>Here we see completely cringe-inducing, uncivil exchanges such as:<p>RMS&gt; <i>Is it possible to do this with call-process
or by running a shell command [instead of the do-applescript function]?</i><p>H. Melman&gt; <i>I think so, though I have to figure out the right
incantation to get stdout returned as a string.  I might be
nice if call-process&#x27; DESTINATION arg had an option for this.</i><p>A. Schwab&gt; <i>See shell-command-to-string for how to do that.</i><p>It&#x27;s like not being able to look away from a trainwreck, these uncouth, unconstructive GNU diatribes.