From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: 9248@debbugs.gnu.org, npostavs@gmail.com
Subject: bug#9248: 23.2; Welcome screen
Date: Sat, 29 Feb 2020 00:11:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8736au9uiq.fsf@stefankangas.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o8uztl0p.fsf@marxist.se> (Stefan Kangas's message of "Sun, 19 Jan 2020 18:26:46 +0100")
tags 9248 + notabug wontfix
close 9248
thanks
Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:
> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> > There is very important political information on that screen about
>> > user freedom, GNU and the FSF. Yes. But this way of showing it to
>> > users is too intrusive. We win the fight against proprietary software
>> > also by providing the best possible user experience.
>>
>> We don't win anything for our cause if the users of our software
>> don't know what the cause is.
>>
>> It used to be that people could easily use Emacs for years and
>> never have the faintest idea what we are fighting for. Emacs
>> displayed this information only in circumstances which they never saw.
>> When I discovered that, I changed it to present that information in
>> more circumstances, so that all users would see it.
>>
>> If it is slightly annoying to see this information when you already
>> know it, consider that that is a rather small sacrifice to make for
>> the cause of freedom.
>
> Those are some good points. I think you convinced me that there is no
> need to change this, although my preferences are slighly different.
>
> Given the lack of support from other Emacs developers to change this
> default, I think it's unlikely to ever happen. Therefore, it would
> probably make the most sense to close this bug as wontfix/notabug.
No further comments within 6 weeks, so I'm closing this bug now.
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-28 23:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-04 8:53 bug#9248: 23.2; Welcome screen Jean-Marc Fran=e7ois
2011-08-06 15:13 ` Vijay Lakshminarayanan
2011-08-06 17:39 ` Antoine Levitt
2011-08-06 16:11 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2020-01-17 23:43 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-01-18 3:34 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-01-18 9:50 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-01-18 16:40 ` Stefan Kangas
[not found] ` <CAJf-WoRap_r1D4EL13qbkMq4QX8NGpuYF5FktfmN0=fB-3DxVQ@mail.gmail.com>
2020-01-18 19:44 ` Corwin Brust
2020-01-18 19:49 ` Corwin Brust
2020-01-19 3:38 ` Richard Stallman
2020-01-19 17:26 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-02-28 23:11 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
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