Re: How to make Emacs popular again.

[Richard Stallman]

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  >   It's not like the server calculates something that could
  > be subverted by a server we don't control.  What harm could be done by
  > looking up a word?

The server could report that you did so.

                        And how is it different from the command we have
  > that queries an Internet search engine (M-s M-w)?

One difference is that you can, and should, have a local dictionary
and you can't have a local search engine.

Another difference is that you are likely to want to check definitions
very often, and searching less often.

                                                       Or from asking an
  > SMTP server to send an email message?

There are so many differences I don't have time to write them.


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Dr Richard Stallman
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Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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