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Re: How to make Emacs popular again.
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Jean Louis |
Subject: |
Re: How to make Emacs popular again. |
Date: |
Thu, 1 Oct 2020 19:21:34 +0300 |
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* Alfred M. Szmidt <ams@gnu.org> [2020-10-01 17:53]:
> > > https://hewgill.com/dict/
> >
> > Unfortunately, it is a "site", meaning a server you have to contact
> > over the internet.
> >
> > The tendency to involve other people's computers in doing jobs that
> > you could do on your own computer is a fundamental wrong turning in
> > computing practice. 'dict' is an example of this problem.
> >
> > We need to lead people away from that paradigm, not adapt our
> > activities to fit into it.
>
> I understand the general issue with using services, but in this case
> the server just sends the description of a word taken from a
> dictionary.
>
> I think the specific problem in this case is that this specific site
> is doing some type of conversion between the Wikitionary format to
> something dict clients understand.
That is alright for users, and I think, that type of output is then to
comply to free software license, so the source should be free.
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again., Richard Stallman, 2020/10/01
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again., Alfred M. Szmidt, 2020/10/01
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again.,
Jean Louis <=
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again., Richard Stallman, 2020/10/01
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again., Eli Zaretskii, 2020/10/02
- Sv: How to make Emacs popular again., arthur miller, 2020/10/02
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again., Jean Louis, 2020/10/02
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again., Eli Zaretskii, 2020/10/02
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again., Jean Louis, 2020/10/02
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again., Eli Zaretskii, 2020/10/03
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again., Richard Stallman, 2020/10/03
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again., Eli Zaretskii, 2020/10/04
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again., Richard Stallman, 2020/10/09