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Re: Changes for emacs 28
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Changes for emacs 28 |
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Sun, 13 Sep 2020 00:07:17 -0400 |
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> > Please let's NOT use the term "distros" or "distributions" for these!
> > It is confusing. Even if some others do use it, let's firmly not
> > follow them.
> It looks like the term is fairly settled in the community, and what
> studying linguistics has tought me is fighting that is an uphill battle,
> optimistically speaking.
They can say what they like, but _here_ please don't use the term
"distributions" except_ for operating system distributions.
We fight many uphill battles, because it is worth the trouble
to advance even if we don't "win" in a permanent sense.
--
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)
- Re: Changes for emacs 28, (continued)
- Re: Changes for emacs 28, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/09/11
- Re: Changes for emacs 28, Gregory Heytings, 2020/09/11
- Re: Changes for emacs 28, Robert Pluim, 2020/09/11
- Re: Changes for emacs 28, Gregory Heytings, 2020/09/11
- Re: Changes for emacs 28, Robert Pluim, 2020/09/11
- Re: Changes for emacs 28, Arthur Miller, 2020/09/11
- Re: Changes for emacs 28, Göktuğ Kayaalp, 2020/09/11
- Re: Changes for emacs 28, Arthur Miller, 2020/09/11
- Re: Changes for emacs 28, Richard Stallman, 2020/09/11
- Re: Changes for emacs 28, Göktuğ Kayaalp, 2020/09/12
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- Re: Changes for emacs 28, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/09/11
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