From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: manual activism (was: Re: no C-h i m emacs ??) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 22:11:56 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87mw7ogqn7.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87egt14r51.fsf@reader.local.lan> <87vbmdkytr.fsf_-_@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416345333 14846 80.91.229.3 (18 Nov 2014 21:15:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 21:15:33 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 18 22:15:26 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xqq7Q-0003lC-8Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 22:15:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55406 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xqq7P-0006gx-NX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 16:15:23 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 50 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: feB02bRejf23rfBm51Mt7Q.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZUKzGH/Ar113zyrlYBwmV8zYMYI= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:208754 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:101034 Archived-At: Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro writes: > Better yet: buy copies from the FSF and donate to > the nearest library. You think I'm the CEO of the national bank? *You* buy them and send them to me, that is the best alternative yet. > That way you supports it in developing GNU and > promoting software freedom, while helping your > neighbors who prefer a paper book or don't know that > > sudo apt-get install emacs24-common-non-dfsg > > will solve their problems. Of course, they could be > afraid of "non-free" repositories or not have the > wisdom to differentiate what's really free from > what's not. It is not really about that in this case. Here it is more like: Computer Kid Kevin wants to make a 3D shooter or MMORPG, and he also likes to read the emails of the girls in his school. So he goes to the public library to look for books on C++ (perhaps C# these days), and security. He browses the shelves and guess what, he finds the Emacs and Gnus manuals! So he forgets all about fragging people in real-time 3D and he arrives at the mature conclusion that it is better to *mail* to the girls (perhaps using Gnus) than to secretly read their correspondence with other guys. Happy end. FIN. > Ps: Debian's craziness goes to the length of > classifying GNU manuals the same as proprietary > software, conflating both in the same infamous > repository. :-( That's another reason for GNU to rule > the world! ;-) You know the saying: The Microsoft people are heartless businessmen, and the Apple people are stinking intellectuals who cannot do laundry. But worst of them all are the Linux people - they are our allies! [thunderous laughter] -- underground experts united