Re: [ELPA] New package: splash-screen

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>   > Shouting magical phrases at users is one of the things that makes the
>   > FSF look quaint and out of touch.
>
> I am sure that isn't a problem big enough to call for omission
> of any of the important statements form the splash screen.
> But it might suggest doing more to explain to the users why those
> statements are needed there.

But they aren't needed, according to every other software organisation
in the world.

Is your stance that all the other orgs just doesn't have as good legal
counsel as the FSF, and the FSF therefore knows something that nobody
else does?  I guess it's possible?  But it's unlikely.

Open any other (non-GNU) program, free or non-free, and nobody will be
shouting at you ABOUT THERE BEING NO WARRANTY.

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