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Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 14:49:40 -0500

[[[ 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. ]]]

  > Some formats (like Org) are "final", in the sense that the source text
  > (the equivalent of *.texi) is intended for consumption (it is the *.info
  > too,

Please don't use the term "consume" to refer to looking at a work.
It's inaccurate because looking at a text doesn't consume it.

What makes that error really significant is that that term is used
to encourage people to adopt a shallow economistic mindset
that supports the propaganda of our enemies.

See http://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
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