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Re: [PATCH] Revert Abortion joke removal.
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?
> So my intention was to avoid wasting his time over something that I
> doubted he cared about anymore.
Would you be so kind as to also comment on this apparent still-standing
objection, please, and why you seem to have entirely disregarded it?
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-04/msg00599.html
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