Re: manual activism (was: Re: no C-h i m emacs ??)

[Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro]

Em Tue, 18 Nov 2014 23:23:16 +0100
Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> escreveu:

> > I'm not for wasting paper with books.
> 
> Just curious: how many e-books do you read every year?

Does it count the GNU manuals read more than once?

> > I can download an electronic copy and send it to
> > you, though.
> 
> That won't be necessary: I am capable of downloading
> files from the Internet.

Are you sure?  One thing is downloading it and another is finding it.
Let me know if you happen to change your mind.


> > Then, you can donate any amount of
> > money you please to FSF. How about that?
> 
> How about: stop trying to spend *my* (non-existent)
> money! I haven't spent I dime in five years. I'm not
> talking about how to fund the FSF, I'm talking about
> how to get those manuals to the library. You are of
> course free to discuss FSF and all that but don't tell
> me what to buy or download, that I'd appreciate. OK?

Even if to give you instructions of how to get those manuals to
the library we had to tell you what to buy or download?


> OK, do you understand this quote, then: "Whenever you
> read a book and you don't understand it, it isn't
> always the book's fault."

I understand it, but I don't see how it's applicable.  I know however
another quote that is so in this very situation: "Whenever you
quote some text and someone else doesn't understand it, it isn't always
their fault."


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