RMS: «If you are talking about the practice of installing non-free software into a browser, the only thing that is good to offer is the reminder that you must refuse to do that.» --

RMS: "People are writing as if I had announced my final retirement. This is just a matter of other people maintaining Emacs. [...] This is the fourth time that the Maintainer of GNU Emacs has been someone other than me. Previous maintainers include Joe Arceneaux, Jim Blandy, and Gerd Moellmann."

-- SOURCES: [ http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02284.html ] -- [ http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02232.html ]

Thomas Lord: «...The more urgent issue concerns the emerging W3C-based world: what will GNU have to offer there?» --
Miles Bader: «Hopefully, an alternative...» --

"GNU Emacs 22.3 has been released, and is now available at
ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/ and the GNU FTP mirrors (see http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html) [...] Emacs 22.3 is a bugfix release." --
* see also: fix for a security vulnerability

RMS: « ...I am sure it IS effective for convincing people to use [Emacs] when that is more convenient. I want to convince people to insist on freedom even when it is inconvenient..." »

RMS: « ... The free software movement is a political cause, not a technical one. "Choose based on technical criteria first of all" is the opposite of what we say... »

RMS: « ... I sympathize fully with appreciation of convenient software. What I refuse to sympathize with is the failure to appreciate freedom even more... »

«...I've just implemented support for multiple package sources in package.el. Right now it is preconfigured to use ELPA, but the following snippet will let it pull in packages from my own archive source as well...» — via Phil Hagelberg —

"The message http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-12/msg01268.html by Eric Raymond has pointed out some of the main fallacies of the development process of Emacs..."