[Fsf-Debian] Silent here

Andrei POPESCU andreimpopescu at gmail.com
Tue Nov 27 20:02:08 UTC 2012


On Ma, 27 nov 12, 11:36:58, Bryan Baldwin wrote:
> 
> Saying that non-technical writing should be removed because it belongs
> in a blog is saying that things you don't like are eligible for
> unlimited censorship, decided by you, for users downstream. And you back
> up that analysis by complaining that you aren't allowed to remove the
> things that you don't like, not only for yourself, but for anyone else
> who might benefit from having them included in their original,
> unmolested form. If you want to delete that stuff from your computers,
> good on you. But when you've decided to do that for me, you've done me
> an injury.

Would you consider a message at program start that tells the user about 
the program Author's opinion something useful? Do you think users should 
have the freedom to remove the code doing that?

Kind regards,
Andrei
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