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Re: emacs-losedows-builder


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: emacs-losedows-builder
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2016 14:46:03 -0400

[[[ 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. ]]]

  > "Win" gives a positive message
  > probably just in English language

English is the principal language of computing, and the principal
language of the GNU Project's communications.  The text in the Emacs
distribution is nearly all in English.  Thus, what things mean or
suggest in English is of paramount importance.

But you might not know that in the hacker community "Win!" is used as
an exclamation meaning "Great!" or "What a success!"  We are not going
to say that about a proprietary program.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org)
Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.




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