rsync - Jul 2016 - man page

Hi,

I've found this in the man page for rsync: "To backup my wife’s home
directory, which consists of large MS Word files and mail folders, I use a cron
job that runs ...".

I believe it's very inappropriate and inconsiderate to mention Microsoft
products unless it's really necessary. I'm mostly concerned with the
fact that this careless usage not only gives them more publicity than they
deserve, but also gives those programs a legitimacy that they don't have
since they are proprietary software (and also promoting proprietary standards).

Therefore I'd like to suggest that the man page be changed to "which
consists of large documents and mail folders", or at least mention another
software such as LibreOffice.

Thanks for the understanding.

On Wed, 27 Jul 2016 14:56:07 +0300
Marcus Fonzarelli <marcus.fonzarelli at yandex.com>
wrote:
> Therefore I'd like to suggest that the man page be changed to
"which
> consists of large documents and mail folders", or at least mention
> another software such as LibreOffice.
Submitting a patch would be a good start.  Gotta make it easy on the
maintainers.

Karl <kop at meme.com>
Free Software:  "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
                 -- Robert A. Heinlein

I would rather the maintainers would spend their time improving the
application, and not worrying aobut the OP's hurt little open-sourced
religious feelings. I use rsync to transfer pretty massive (wait for it)
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP files around my LAN. Neener  neener fucken neener.

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 11:37 AM, Karl O. Pinc <kop at meme.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jul 2016 14:56:07 +0300
> Marcus Fonzarelli <marcus.fonzarelli at yandex.com> wrote:
> > Therefore I'd like to suggest that the man page be changed to
"which
> > consists of large documents and mail folders", or at least
mention
> > another software such as LibreOffice.
>
> Submitting a patch would be a good start.  Gotta make it easy on the
> maintainers.
>
> Karl <kop at meme.com>
> Free Software:  "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
>                  -- Robert A. Heinlein
>
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