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Re:Richard Stallman’s rider by jrockway on Thursday October 27, 2011 @03:44AM (#3162024)
Emacs has allowed me to earn hundreds of thousands of dollars. Apple products? Nope.
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Re:Richard Stallman’s rider by maximusprime on Thursday October 27, 2011 @04:01AM (#3162054)
It's a text editor.
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Re:Richard Stallman’s rider by jrockway on Thursday October 27, 2011 @04:28AM (#3162123)
Yes. I edit text for a living.
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Re:Richard Stallman’s rider by maximusprime on Thursday October 27, 2011 @07:17AM (#3162500)
Anyone can write a text editor though. It's fairly simple.

It's beyond bizarre to compare the creation of a massive company, thousands of jobs, numerous earth shattering products which enhance the lives of millions, with a text editor a few programmers use.

IMHO Stallman has been a net negative on the computer industry, and will not be remembered fondly outside the emacs niche userbase.

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