Re: Emacs vista build failures

[David Kastrup]

"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup wrote:
>>> My impression is that a substantial minority, possibly even a
>>> majority, of Emacs users run on this particular non-free OS, and
>>> that the cost of supporting them is low by comparison.
>>
>> The cost is that they don't care about using or improving free
>> systems.
>
> I think there is a good bit of psychology involved there because I
> believe you can not generally come to that conclusion without a
> certain view of how people decide what to do.

I am not interested in applying psychology to feel comfortable with an
undesirable situation.  That may be fine as long as the situation can't
be changed.

> What is propably less well know is that psychological experiments and
> thinking points to that people who are what they call authoritarian in
> their view of other people more often believe that pressure is the
> (only) way to get people to do things.
>
> Perhaps it is easy to be lead to the conclusion that pressure is
> necessary. For some actions it is but are the actions and thinking we
> want really of this type?

If you consider it as _pressure_ if I voice my opinion, and want to
silence me, then you might want to think about your priorities.  Either
you consider me a babbling idiot who does not make sense, in which case
there is no necessity to change my opinion.  Or you don't, and there may
be sense to what I say.  And if there is, this sense will not go away if
you make me go away.

So we might as well stop.  The world will become neither simpler nor
more complex by us agreeing or disagreeing.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum