From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: splash-screen Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 00:37:47 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87d02ej7bq.fsf@gnus.org> <874knoekki.fsf@gnus.org> <87mu1fb8kb.fsf@gnus.org> <87blhurx3n.fsf@gnus.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="11587"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: nicolas.rougier@inria.fr, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 26 06:38:44 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kM1yu-0002vc-2j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 06:38:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52596 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kM1yt-0005AK-5O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 00:38:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36502) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kM1y2-0004MF-76 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 00:37:50 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54527) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kM1y1-0004tc-Dd; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 00:37:49 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kM1xz-0001p5-U3; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 00:37:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87blhurx3n.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Fri, 25 Sep 2020 12:04:28 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:256444 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > 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. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)