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Re: Futile bug reports?
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Futile bug reports? |
Date: |
Thu, 9 Aug 2001 09:31:54 +0300 (IDT) |
On 8 Aug 2001, deja8501 wrote:
> rms@gnu.org (Richard Stallman) wrote in message
> news:<200108082315.RAA11829@aztec.santafe.edu>...
> > Meanwhile, venting your anger with terms like "FSF Emacs" is
> > not likely to make us want to communicate with you more.
>
> I didn't want to sound angry or offensive. English is not my mother
> tongue therefore I sometimes cannot express my thoughts properly. I
> wanted to be constructive, that's why I suggested setting up a bug
> tracking system
>
> I'm what you can call a free software enthusiast. I use FSF Emacs all
> the time and I want to make it better with my bug reports.
The issue here is that there's no such thing as "FSF Emacs". It's
usually a term used by people who have derogatory attitude towards GNU
Emacs; thus Richard's comment, especially since the rest of your message
did sound quite angry.
> I think that alienating your users with statements like yours above
> (the one about communication) does not help making the free software
> movement more successful.
We are merely human. No one likes when software they spent years
working on is a subject of name-calling.
- Futile bug reports?, deja8501, 2001/08/08
- Re: Futile bug reports?, Charles Sebold, 2001/08/08
- Re: Futile bug reports?, Richard Stallman, 2001/08/08
- Re: Futile bug reports?, deja8501, 2001/08/09
- Re: Futile bug reports?,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Futile bug reports?, deja8501, 2001/08/09
- Re: Futile bug reports?, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/08/09
- Re: Futile bug reports?, Gerd Moellmann, 2001/08/09
- Re: Futile bug reports?, Gunnar Evermann, 2001/08/13
- Re: Futile bug reports?, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/08/13
- Re: Futile bug reports?, Kai Großjohann, 2001/08/13
- Re: Futile bug reports?, Peter S Galbraith, 2001/08/13
- Re: Futile bug reports?, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/08/14
- Re: Futile bug reports?, Peter S Galbraith, 2001/08/14
- Re: Futile bug reports?, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/08/14