>>> "PL" == Po Lu writes: > It gives the users of the proprietary system a taste of free software. > To quote part of the Emacs manual: > We support GNU Emacs on proprietary operating systems because we hope > this taste of freedom will inspire users to escape from them. >> For example if I am forced to run MS Office, then I would chose MacOS >> because I can, via fink, macports and homebrew, I can run GNU software, >> while that is a lot harder in MS Windows. > MS Office, MS Windows and macOS are all proprietary software. The goal > is to eradicate them, not to make it more convenient for people to use > them. I know, and I do share your goals, however the real world is different. As I can personally testify, it is all about document format, if a free software cannot read and write 100% accurate a document in the infamous docx format, then it will not be used in a lot of environments (official commercial etc). > But my main concern is whether or not it works with Octave, which > directly concerns me (as a user of Octave). It would certainly be > disappointing if Emacs supported Matlab better than Octave, and it would > also be harmful to the GNU project. I am not sure what better here means, for example debugging would work better with matlab then with octave? I presume it will be the other way around since mathworks sometimes changes internals without, ahm a well extended documentation. Syntax highlighting might be another issue, but what could be easily resolved I guess. >> Ok, I really have to check that one, my guess is now, but I have to sort >> it out. > Please do that, thanks :)