From: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Variant spellings in GNU Emacs documentation
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 09:07:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ur7xupvbf.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: barmar-52F35F.02393020012004@netnews.comcast.net
> * Barry Margolin <onezne@nyhz.zvg.rqh> [2004-01-20 07:39:34 +0000]:
>
> In article <mailman.969.1074573915.928.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> Personally, I don't think it's very funny humour. When one calls
>> MS-DOS "MS-DOG" or MS-Windows "windoze", one is holding in
>> contempt not only the sleazy marketing types at Microsoft, but
>> also the programmers who wrote these systems.
Yep, and also their users.
Got a problem with that?
>> They are all working on non-free software. And making lots of money
>> for it. I don't feel much compassion for them.
>
> You have contempt for people because they have jobs doing what they like?
so? to take it to extreme, what if death camp guards liked their jobs?
> I don't really have much problem with people using these derogatory
> nicknames in Usenet postings and similar media; this is an informal
> environment, and it's common to throw opinions and biases around in
> conversation. But putting them in published software documentation
> just makes us all seem unprofessional and juvenile, and hurts the
> whole free and open software movement.
I agree with you completely, every word!
All these "official renaming campaigns" sound like "green grapes".
yuk.
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-17 22:30 Variant spellings in GNU Emacs documentation Reuben Thomas
2004-01-18 19:15 ` Richard Stallman
2004-01-18 22:28 ` Reuben Thomas
2004-01-19 20:12 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <mailman.865.1074453744.928.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-01-18 23:16 ` David Kastrup
2004-01-19 6:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.883.1074493658.928.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-01-19 6:51 ` David Kastrup
2004-01-19 7:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-01-19 12:07 ` Alan Mackenzie
2004-01-20 4:42 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <mailman.969.1074573915.928.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-01-20 7:39 ` Barry Margolin
2004-01-20 8:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.978.1074588520.928.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-01-20 9:47 ` David Kastrup
2004-01-20 22:31 ` Barry Margolin
2004-01-20 14:07 ` Sam Steingold [this message]
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