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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: rms@gnu.org, Simon Friis Vindum <simonfv@gmail.com>
Cc: nikolay.kudryavtsev@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs-losedows-builder
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2016 02:17:13 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e8e4eaab-8959-f907-85a6-cd0fe67acf3d@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1bfX7o-0003R6-EW@fencepost.gnu.org>

Hello Richard,

On 01.09.2016 21:54, Richard Stallman wrote:

> Name-calling is a very effective method for spreading the idea that
> something is evil -- in this case Windows.

Not when doing so makes us appear childish. People are less inclined to 
heed warnings from those who they do not take seriously. And in this 
case, there's no "meat" to the message. Just name-calling.

> Contrariwise, pleasant nicknames such as "win" tend to act as support.
> That's why we don't refer to Windows as "win".

Let's call it "windows", then. Though I cannot think of a time when I've 
read e.g. "win32" and made an association with "win" as in "victory". Or 
if I did, it didn't make me think about Windows better anyway (and I've 
used it for years).

Best regards,
Dmitry.



  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-01 23:17 UTC|newest]

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       ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
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           ` emacs-losedows-builder Kaushal Modi
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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