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Re:Absolute Beginner's Guide to Emacs (2012) by oblio on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @08:12AM (#18599099)
Design choices are not always bad. And Open Source != not being opinionated.

Regarding the spyware thing, agreed, but at the end of the day, the makers choose how they distribute the thing. It's just like Chrome and many other products.

I, for one, am thankful that they're making available a high quality tool for free.

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Re:Absolute Beginner's Guide to Emacs (2012) by ken on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @09:46AM (#18599795)
> It's just like Chrome and many other products.

Exactly. That's another program whose "open source" status frustrates and saddens me.

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Re:Absolute Beginner's Guide to Emacs (2012) by oblio on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @10:24AM (#18600187)
I guess you should be looking for Free Software. After all, there was a big kerfuffle about it in the early 2000's.
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