From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: nicolas.rougier@inria.fr, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: splash-screen
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 15:43:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o8lslklt.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1kM1xz-0001p5-U3@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat, 26 Sep 2020 00:37:47 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> > Shouting magical phrases at users is one of the things that makes the
> > FSF look quaint and out of touch.
>
> I am sure that isn't a problem big enough to call for omission
> of any of the important statements form the splash screen.
> But it might suggest doing more to explain to the users why those
> statements are needed there.
But they aren't needed, according to every other software organisation
in the world.
Is your stance that all the other orgs just doesn't have as good legal
counsel as the FSF, and the FSF therefore knows something that nobody
else does? I guess it's possible? But it's unlikely.
Open any other (non-GNU) program, free or non-free, and nobody will be
shouting at you ABOUT THERE BEING NO WARRANTY.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-26 13:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-20 8:35 [ELPA] New package: splash-screen Nicolas P. Rougier
2020-09-20 11:24 ` Colin Baxter
2020-09-20 12:36 ` Nicolas P. Rougier
2020-09-20 13:34 ` Colin Baxter
2020-09-20 13:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-20 14:50 ` Nicolas P. Rougier
2020-09-20 17:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-20 20:33 ` Nicolas P. Rougier
2020-09-20 22:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-21 3:50 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-21 5:47 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-09-21 6:06 ` Nicolas P. Rougier
2020-09-21 11:09 ` Philip K.
2020-09-21 11:42 ` Nicolas P. Rougier
2020-09-21 15:24 ` Philip K.
2020-09-21 16:40 ` Philip K.
2020-09-21 17:22 ` Nicolas P. Rougier
2020-09-21 11:53 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-09-21 12:29 ` Nicolas P. Rougier
2020-09-21 13:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-21 13:45 ` Thibaut Verron
2020-09-20 19:20 ` Juri Linkov
2020-09-20 20:53 ` Nicolas P. Rougier
2020-09-20 19:58 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-21 3:49 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-22 12:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-23 3:42 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-23 3:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-23 8:03 ` Mathias Dahl
2020-09-24 1:31 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-24 6:17 ` Nicolas P. Rougier
2020-09-25 4:39 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-23 12:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-23 16:21 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-09-23 16:36 ` Nicolas P. Rougier
2020-09-24 1:32 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-24 2:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-24 13:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-25 4:38 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-25 10:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-25 11:26 ` Thibaut Verron
2020-09-26 4:37 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-26 13:43 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2020-09-27 2:43 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-27 8:54 ` Thibaut Verron
2020-09-27 9:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-27 9:56 ` Thibaut Verron
2020-09-27 10:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-27 10:34 ` Thibaut Verron
2020-09-27 10:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-27 11:24 ` Thibaut Verron
2020-09-27 11:52 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-27 13:32 ` Jean Louis
2020-09-27 16:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-28 3:43 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-28 11:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-28 14:02 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-09-26 8:28 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-09-26 9:45 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-09-26 9:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-26 14:34 ` Drew Adams
2020-09-27 2:45 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-27 8:34 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-09-27 8:52 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-09-27 8:56 ` Thibaut Verron
2020-09-27 9:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-27 10:03 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-09-27 10:42 ` Nicolas P. Rougier
2020-09-27 14:03 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-09-28 3:42 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-28 6:29 ` Nicolas P. Rougier
2020-09-29 3:32 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-27 14:23 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-09-27 16:20 ` Stefan Monnier
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