From: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
To: rms@gnu.org, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Cc: simonfv@gmail.com, nikolay.kudryavtsev@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs-losedows-builder
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2016 14:15:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFyQvY2MUu8pAZzH36oknLf7iaOj4Qy=D9YDZf2O0EENPv5fxA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1bfoF4-0008Ph-RE@fencepost.gnu.org>
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On Fri, Sep 2, 2016, 7:12 AM Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
> Or perhaps
> you think of Microsoft as a competitor that deserves respect, rather
> than as an enemy that has subjugated millions of people.
>
Actually before you brought this up, I never thought of the "win" part in
Windows could mean any respect at all. "Win" gives a positive message
probably just in English language and happens to be the first part of the
word windows. This kind of micro-digging to find ways of name calling the
competitor does not suit well to our community. If we should find and
advertise tangible reasons to why we are better than the competitor.
For all many would care, windows might as well be foodows, and the code in
the patch used foo- instead of win-. That "win-" part means nothing else
than happening to be the first part of Windows. Victory flags do not go
waving in my mind when I read some code with "win-". I believe such trivial
refactoring feedback would be demoralizing to contributors.
But I agree with the similar change suggested by Glenn on the grounds of
coding consistency.
> --
Kaushal Modi
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-30 19:47 emacs-win-builder Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2016-08-31 14:17 ` emacs-win-builder Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-01 12:39 ` emacs-win-builder Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2016-09-01 14:05 ` emacs-win-builder Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-31 21:45 ` emacs-losedows-builder Richard Stallman
2016-09-01 8:37 ` emacs-losedows-builder Simon Friis Vindum
2016-09-01 18:54 ` emacs-losedows-builder Richard Stallman
2016-09-01 23:17 ` emacs-losedows-builder Dmitry Gutov
2016-09-02 1:36 ` emacs-losedows-builder Paul Eggert
2016-09-12 17:14 ` emacs-losedows-builder Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2016-09-02 13:10 ` emacs-losedows-builder Richard Stallman
2016-09-02 13:19 ` emacs-losedows-builder Dmitry Gutov
2016-09-02 14:15 ` Kaushal Modi [this message]
2016-09-02 17:44 ` emacs-losedows-builder Richard Copley
2016-09-03 12:02 ` emacs-losedows-builder Richard Stallman
2016-09-04 6:51 ` emacs-losedows-builder Tim Cross
2016-09-04 13:48 ` emacs-losedows-builder Richard Stallman
2016-09-02 18:46 ` emacs-losedows-builder Richard Stallman
2016-09-02 20:12 ` emacs-losedows-builder Emanuel Berg
2016-09-02 1:05 ` emacs-losedows-builder John Wiegley
2016-09-01 12:44 ` emacs-losedows-builder Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2016-09-01 18:55 ` emacs-losedows-builder Richard Stallman
2016-09-12 17:43 ` emacs-losedows-builder Nikolay Kudryavtsev
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