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Re:Emacs: The most successful malleable system by nickdrozd on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @08:31AM (#22876937)
> Only a tiny minority of users can't access package repos.

That sounds like a verifiable claim. Do you have any proof?

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Re:Emacs: The most successful malleable system by dmortin on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @08:36AM (#22876969)
Only my personal experience. I never encountered a situation in my professional life where I couldn't access the net.

How is it verifiable? Is there some statistics of this?

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Re:Emacs: The most successful malleable system by zeveb on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @11:56AM (#22879276)
You must never have worked on airgapped systems then. Or had to justify non-standard software to gatekeepers.
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Re:Emacs: The most successful malleable system by catalogia on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @01:05PM (#22880199)
Surely workers in airgapped systems are (objectively) a minority, if not a tiny minority ('tiny' is subjective..)
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