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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com>
Cc: m43cap@yandex.com, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Please install this doc change for me.
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2018 15:38:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1f35I0-00046J-3g@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C51E34F7-A76A-45C3-A5AD-828E5972DC8E@gmail.com> (message from Jean-Christophe Helary on Mon, 2 Apr 2018 00:21:07 +0900)

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  > If the emacs project bothers enough to provide code for users of
  > macOS then maybe it should use the labels macOS users expect to
  > find. Using MacOS suggests that the code does not support the most
  > recent versions of the OS, which is not the case.

I see your point, but I think the effect is so small that we need not
be very concerned.

  > Apple does not care how you label things. Users, who sometimes do
  > not have the choice, do.

With all due respect, I think you are mistaken.  Companies generally
care very strongly about all the details of their PR messaging.
Apple has shown great attention to the surface of things.

  > Besides, all this has little to do with English language conventions.

Why would it not?

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-02 19:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-31  1:41 Please install this doc change for me Richard Stallman
2018-03-31  2:13 ` Paul Eggert
2018-03-31 21:27   ` Richard Stallman
2018-04-01  7:17     ` Colin Baxter
2018-04-01 15:03       ` Richard Stallman
2018-04-01 15:21         ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2018-04-02 19:38           ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2018-04-03 11:57         ` Nicolas Petton
2018-03-31 16:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-03-31 16:55   ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-31 21:29     ` Richard Stallman
2018-04-01  6:51       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-01 15:03         ` Richard Stallman
2018-04-01 16:28           ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-01 19:00             ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-02 19:41             ` Richard Stallman

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