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Re: [External] : Re: Please rename trusted-content to trusted-contents


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: [External] : Re: Please rename trusted-content to trusted-contents
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2024 23:53:38 -0500

[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]

  > "Content" is the meaning that's "contained", abstractly,
  > in something.  Something's "contents" are the actual
  > things contained in it - the something is regarded only
  > as a container.

I think that is correct, for at least some of the many usages
of those words.

What is trusted in this cass is not the _meaning_ of what's in the file,
ii is the literal code itself.  Thus, "contents" is correct.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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