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Re: [PATCH] Revert Abortion joke removal.
On Tue, 2018-05-08 at 16:33 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On May 8, 2018, Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com> wrote:
>
> > In this case, the only concrete reason why we might have wanted to
> > have his opinion was, we knew he originally wrote the text that was
> > proposed for removal, and we knew that *at the time* he cared strongly
> > enough about its inclusion to put a note in the source code saying not
> > to remove it. But. He did that in 1992. (Thanks for digging up the
> > exact year, Joseph.) 1992 was twenty-six years ago. RMS is known for
> > his strongly and persistently held opinions, but even so: do *you*
> > still care about any particular two sentences of text you wrote
> > twenty-six years ago?
>
> May the lesson be learned ;-) I was surprised myself, but he still
> does. Let's ask next time, shall we?
You don't answer Zack's question. You say what you believe RMS thinks.
I don't think Zack did anything wrong here. Asking RMS might kept him
happy, but that might have only removed one objection. There was, and
is, still consensus for the removal, even with the objection.