From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: 9248@debbugs.gnu.org, npostavs@gmail.com
Subject: bug#9248: 23.2; Welcome screen
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2020 22:38:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1it1QO-0005Ja-0V@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871rrxxfea.fsf@marxist.se> (message from Stefan Kangas on Sat, 18 Jan 2020 10:50:05 +0100)
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> 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.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-19 3:38 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 [this message]
2020-01-19 17:26 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-02-28 23:11 ` Stefan Kangas
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