Re: How to make Emacs popular again.

[Richard Stallman]

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[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
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  > The same way we know that various proprietary operating systems and
  > programs spy on their users: from people who investigate these issues
  > and publish their findings.

That is not reliable.  Occasionally we learn that a server is doing
something bad.  We hear about that as news if it is a very important
server that lots of people use.  Otherwise, people hardly bother.

  > I think you are very unusual in this regard.  I have a lot to do on my
  > typical day, so every second of my time counts.

Me, too.  But looking up in the local copy of Wiktionary is faster than
getting a response from a web site.



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