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Re:Making Emacs Popular Again by Koshkin on Thursday May 07, 2020 @07:19PM (#23109527)
> love and admiration

I don't know about that, I hate agendas. A hammer does not have one, and that does not make it a less useful tool.

Re:Making Emacs Popular Again by ChristianBundy on Thursday May 07, 2020 @07:48PM (#23109740)
> A hammer does not have [an agenda], and that does not make it a less useful tool.

Sure, but by default all software has a copyright agenda built in. We can remove copyright, but there are two approaches:

- Remove copyright so that anyone can use your code, but then they can re-add copyright to your code and sue other people for violating their copyright.

- Remove copyright so that anyone can use your code and ensure that nobody can re-add copyright to your code.

I used to be in the former camp, but I've slowly moved to the latter.

Re:Making Emacs Popular Again by Teknoman117 on Thursday May 07, 2020 @11:12PM (#23111026)
It's kinda why I like the Mozilla license (MPL). Anyone can freely use (leech even) on the project, but if they make improvements or changes to the project they have to share. It also doesn't try to control how the consumer of the project is allowed to deploy such software either.
Re:Making Emacs Popular Again by aidenn0 on Thursday May 07, 2020 @09:58PM (#23110601)
A hammer is not made up of sentient beings who have moral obligations.
Re:Making Emacs Popular Again by downerending on Thursday May 07, 2020 @11:25PM (#23111107)
As far as you know...
Re:Making Emacs Popular Again by aidenn0 on Thursday May 07, 2020 @11:59PM (#23111257)
Now that is a comment living up to a username...