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Re:Emacs is special regarding UIs by ziml77 on Thursday September 10, 2020 @09:16AM (#24432033)
Personal 4th reason: My mind keeps going back to this when I think I want to try Emacs again

> [Every dynamic module] should also export a symbol named plugin_is_GPL_compatible to indicate that its code is released under the GPL or compatible license; Emacs will signal an error if your program tries to load modules that don't export such a symbol.

The viral nature of the GPL already bothers me. Emacs trying to enforce that I'm only running GPL compatible code is even worse.

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Re:Emacs is special regarding UIs by michaelmrose on Friday September 11, 2020 @03:21AM (#24439992)
As a user why would the lack of proprietary loadable modules for Emacs possibly bother you?

There is an extremely active addon ecosystem as it stands.

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