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> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2021 13:05:30 -0400
> From: "Samuel Banya" <sbanya@fastmail.com>
> 
> The way I think of this is like this:
> 
> There always will be a fork.

I suggest to think again, and this time based on what history teaches
us.  There _have_ been forks of Emacs, and we already know how they
ended.

I guess forking Emacs is not the same as forking another project, even
if it's Vim.