From: Glen Stark <mail@glenstark.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What's an even easier explanation how to setup gnus ...
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 09:49:02 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <iIjTt.21246$ip7.18819@en-nntp-07.am2.easynews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.3131.1376408540.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
On Tue, 13 Aug 2013 17:41:51 +0200, Thorsten Jolitz wrote:
>>> ,------------------------------------------------------------------- |
>>> Buy some Apple product, e.g. an iPad, and never ever touch Emacs nor
>>> Gnus.
>>> `-------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Please do not promote proprietary software on gnu.* newsgroups.
>
> I did not mean to promote proprietary software, I just reported some
> empirical evidence from real life: I witnessed first hand how this
> famous fancy proprietary hardware/software product was adapted by a
> group of 70+ year old people that never had anything to do with
> computers, and how it spread joy and excitement among them, how they
> told all their friends and family members who all bought it too, and how
> quick this flat fancy tablet made them part of the modern world of
> communication and information. Thats REAL usability, proprietary or not.
I feel compelled to point out that your original post did not report any
evidence for anything, it gave facetious advice.
Your advice was to recommend the use of non-free software to people over
free-software. This is the very definition of promoting proprietary
software. While you are free to do this, it's pretty rude to do so on a
gnu.* newsgroup, as Stefan pointed out.
In your justification for your post you related an anecdote, which might
qualify as anecdotal evidence, but certainly doesn't qualify as empirical
evidence. None of which is at all relevant to either the question posed
in the original post, nor to the purpose of the gnu.* newsgroups which is
(indirectly) to make the modern world a little more free, not bring more
people into an unfree world.
--
Glen Stark,
Human Being
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Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-13 2:54 What's an even easier explanation how to setup gnus Don Saklad
2013-08-13 7:11 ` Thorsten Jolitz
[not found] ` <mailman.3094.1376377917.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-08-13 14:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-13 15:41 ` Thorsten Jolitz
[not found] ` <mailman.3131.1376408540.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-08-13 16:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-28 9:49 ` Glen Stark [this message]
2013-09-02 11:44 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-09-02 13:20 ` Jambunathan K
2013-09-02 21:26 ` W. Greenhouse
2013-09-03 12:35 ` Richard Riley
[not found] ` <mailman.1212.1378157299.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-02 22:01 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-09-03 0:58 ` W. Greenhouse
2013-09-03 2:12 ` Rustom Mody
2013-09-03 2:44 ` W. Greenhouse
2013-09-03 12:36 ` Richard Riley
[not found] ` <mailman.1233.1378176315.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-03 3:56 ` Rustom Mody
2013-09-03 12:38 ` Richard Riley
2013-09-03 14:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-03 16:44 ` W. Greenhouse
2013-09-03 20:13 ` Jambunathan K
[not found] ` <mailman.1282.1378239114.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-04 3:40 ` Rustom Mody
2013-09-02 13:55 ` Jambunathan K
2013-08-13 17:58 ` Carson Chittom
2013-08-13 19:01 ` configurable means hard? [was: ... easier explanation how to setup gnus ...] Drew Adams
2013-08-13 20:30 ` Carson Chittom
2013-08-13 21:01 ` Drew Adams
2013-08-14 5:19 ` Yuri Khan
[not found] ` <mailman.3178.1376457548.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-08-14 5:26 ` Rustom Mody
2013-08-14 14:05 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.3159.1376425851.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-08-14 14:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-14 14:44 ` Drew Adams
2013-08-14 17:14 ` Rustom Mody
2013-08-16 18:40 ` Ken Goldman
[not found] ` <mailman.188.1376678430.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-08-17 10:59 ` Rustom Mody
[not found] ` <mailman.3146.1376420497.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-08-14 3:11 ` Jason Rumney
2013-08-13 20:17 ` What's an even easier explanation how to setup gnus W. Greenhouse
[not found] ` <mailman.3154.1376425093.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-08-14 3:29 ` Rustom Mody
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