Toward a "modern" Emacs - First Steps
Toward a "modern" Emacs - First Steps
Posted Sep 27, 2020 21:27 UTC (Sun) by loox (guest, #142138)In reply to: Toward a "modern" Emacs - First Steps by khim
Parent article: Toward a "modern" Emacs
>Users are just a means to get more developers and developers are needed to make free software. If the price of getting more users is making software not free... then the whole point of attracting them is lost.
Excluding one and half billion machines from running GPLed software, in order to promote free software, is not smart. Are you telling me that Firefox isn't free software? What about vim? VLC? I can run these apps, as well as plenty of other free software, on iPad. Find common ground with Apple; create it if needed; solve the issue. The current standoff is not promoting free software; it is making emacs increasingly irrelevant. Excellent work, FSF. My compliments.
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