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Re:Emacs Survey by smartmic on Thursday October 22, 2020 @10:18AM (#24858276)
Is it really too much to ask from such a project to learn about its initiators and purpose in a first place directly from the site itself?
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Re:Emacs Survey by tephra on Thursday October 22, 2020 @10:21AM (#24858308)
Well there was a lot of talk about this on the mailing list with a lot of core devs opposed to the idea.
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Re:Emacs Survey by okprod on Thursday October 22, 2020 @10:23AM (#24858319)
I'm not on the mailing list / saw the survey first on HN. At first glance thought it was marketing spam or something.
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Re:Emacs Survey by lottin on Thursday October 22, 2020 @11:46AM (#24859284)
Why would a spammer be interested in hearing opinions about Emacs?
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Re:Emacs Survey by okprod on Thursday October 22, 2020 @11:56AM (#24859378)
Idk, maybe it's Google obtaining market data in order to launch a cloud-based Gemacs
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Re:Emacs Survey by szszrk on Thursday October 22, 2020 @10:26AM (#24858364)
So it clearly is a survey for people on the mailing list and others would just spoil the numbers :)
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Re:Emacs Survey by guenthert on Thursday October 22, 2020 @01:50PM (#24860925)
So they made it as shoddy looking as possible to be able to say later, well we did have a survey, but few participated?
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Re:Emacs Survey by reeealloc on Thursday October 22, 2020 @11:48AM (#24859307)
No, it's not.
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