On 12/13/07, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
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> Even giving the URLs has the effect of referring people to those
> non-free programs.  It gives those non-free programs legitimacy,
> and thus contradicts the idea that "software should be free".

Dadgummit!  Now we're going to have to tell everybody to stop using
emacs!  I hate that, since I love using emacs!  But I had no idea that
the FSF was leading me into software slavery!  Look!
http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/windows/!  And can you believe the
README?

 "This directory contains source and precompiled distributions for GNU
  Emacs on Windows NT/2000/XP and Windows 95/98/Me.  This port is a
  part of the standard GNU Emacs distribution from the Free Software
  Foundation; the precompiled distributions are provided here for
  convenience since the majority of Windows users are not accustomed
  to compiling programs themselves."

I just can't believe it.  I'm crushed - crushed, I tell you! - to
discover that the great Richard M. Stallman and his FSF have been
actively encouraging me all these years to imperil the very
foundations of a free society - not to mention the moral purity of my
immortal soul! - by using non-free software.  It would be bad enough
if they had only provided a url, but - a precompiled binary?  O
misery!  O shame!  O, betrayal!