From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ack.texi
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:42:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uzlisehlt.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0pd4fpq7i4.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:27:31 -0500
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > Please don't forget that someone who reads a printed copy of the Emacs
> > manual does not necessarily have etc/AUTHORS handy.
>
> In other words, they might not have a copy of Emacs handy.
Right.
> In which case there's a bunch of much more useful information they
> also don't have to hand.
That's true, although I'm not sure what information you refer to.
However, acknowledging contribution is a widely accepted act of
courtesy on the part of any significant human endeavor, and in a
project driven by volunteers it is even more important and
appropriate, IMO, even if it doesn't have much instrumental value.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-19 7:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-18 2:57 ack.texi Glenn Morris
2008-12-18 5:17 ` ack.texi Glenn Morris
2008-12-18 6:52 ` ack.texi Glenn Morris
2008-12-18 19:48 ` ack.texi Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-19 1:27 ` ack.texi Glenn Morris
2008-12-19 7:42 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-12-20 18:03 ` ack.texi Richard M Stallman
2008-12-19 7:33 ` ack.texi Richard M Stallman
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