On 12/13/07, Richard Stallman  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!