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Re: Endorsing version 1.0 of the GNU Social Contract
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John Darrington |
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Re: Endorsing version 1.0 of the GNU Social Contract |
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Fri, 14 Feb 2020 05:04:24 -0500 |
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On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 09:26:03PM +0000, Daniel Pocock wrote:
>
> People are welcome to endorse the social contract (or any other
> document, like the Bible or the Koran) if they wish
Of course.
>
> However, how is that relevant if some people endorse it and others don't?
It is not.
>
> Could it be better to work from the ground up, to document the points
> which almost everybody agrees on before talking about the points that
> are controversial?
We have already done that.
It was discussed at length between all interested maintainers, and the result
has been formally codified here:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/kind-communication.html
and the reasons why the particular words were chosen and why some were not
are explained here:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2018-10/msg00001.html
There is no intention to change this, so further discusssion is moot.
"Endorsing" (or not) some random set of people's other ideas is not
going to change anything.
J'
Re: Endorsing version 1.0 of the GNU Social Contract, Jean Louis, 2020/02/13
Re: Endorsing version 1.0 of the GNU Social Contract, Daniel Pocock, 2020/02/13
Endorsing version 1.0 of the GNU Social Contract, fredomatic, 2020/02/12
Re: Endorsing version 1.0 of the GNU Social Contract, Ludovic Courtès, 2020/02/13
Re: Endorsing version 1.0 of the GNU Social Contract, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2020/02/14
Re: Endorsing version 1.0 of the GNU Social Contract, Mark Wielaard, 2020/02/15