Toward a "modern" Emacs

> As the grand parent wrote, the notion of a bad actor very subjective. For a consumer of the device who saved some money because that actor passed some of the savings from not complying to GPL to the consumer that actor is good.

Good and bad can be subjective but I think you're stretching that a bit too far. I doubt violating software licences for profit is considered "good" in any culture. I'm sure it's "not as bad" in some or can yield precedence to some higher cause in others but "good"?

Now of course most consumers will have no idea that their device violates the GPL but that's ignorance not subjectivity.