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Re: How to make Emacs popular again.


From: Jean Louis
Subject: Re: How to make Emacs popular again.
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2020 19:21:34 +0300
User-agent: Mutt/1.14.0 (2020-05-02)

* 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.



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