Re: What would an "An Official" GNU Emacs Book look like?

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2015-05-19, at 22:06, Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello, Richard.
>
> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 03:44:27PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
>>   > > Please do not recommend nonfree manuals on this list.
>
>>   > Did I?
>
>> Not yet any specific nonfree manuals, but it sounded like
>> you _might_ do so; thus, I figured it was good to state the rule.
>> If you weren't going to do this, that's good.
>
> May I suggest the following wording for future occurrences of this
> situation: "Please be careful to avoid recommending nonfree manuals on
> this list.".  This avoids the imputation that the sin has already been
> committed.

I second that.  While I strongly disagree with that policy (as I have
written a few times), I do understand that it's not me who sets the
rules on this list, so indeed I was not going to mention any book by
name.  (Though the borderline between "recommending" and "expressing
opinion" can be of course rather vague.)

>> -- 
>> Dr Richard Stallman

Regards,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University