From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#9248: 23.2; Welcome screen Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2020 22:38:56 -0500 Message-ID: References: <868vr97e2e.fsf@jmfranc-laptop.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <87a76l1wen.fsf@marxist.se> <87tv4tbfoz.fsf@gmail.com> <871rrxxfea.fsf@marxist.se> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="77966"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 9248@debbugs.gnu.org, npostavs@gmail.com To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 19 04:40:12 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1it1Rc-000K70-6o for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 19 Jan 2020 04:40:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47226 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1it1Ra-0007VO-RK for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 18 Jan 2020 22:40:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57212) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1it1RT-0007VG-Nx for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jan 2020 22:40:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1it1RS-0003sm-KX for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jan 2020 22:40:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:36617) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1it1RS-0003si-I1 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jan 2020 22:40:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1it1RS-0006ip-EO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jan 2020 22:40:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2020 03:40:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 9248 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 9248-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B9248.157940514625769 (code B ref 9248); Sun, 19 Jan 2020 03:40:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 9248) by debbugs.gnu.org; 19 Jan 2020 03:39:06 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42590 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1it1QX-0006hZ-V8 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jan 2020 22:39:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:48084) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1it1QV-0006h5-89 for 9248@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jan 2020 22:39:04 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:60364) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1it1QP-0003Pj-QZ; Sat, 18 Jan 2020 22:38:57 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1it1QO-0005Ja-0V; Sat, 18 Jan 2020 22:38:56 -0500 In-Reply-To: <871rrxxfea.fsf@marxist.se> (message from Stefan Kangas on Sat, 18 Jan 2020 10:50:05 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:174856 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > 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)